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Posted by evizaer at 10:55 PM
XCOM uses a technique that Firaxis also used in Civilization games since Civilization III to prevent save-scumming: the seed used to generate psuedo-random numbers is saved along with your scenario, so when you reload and do the same actions again, the exact same results will occur.
It seems like a strange thing to do, and directly against a meta-game tactic that players may use to achieve desired results in a game. It merits an examination of save-scumming as a result of game design; when does it happen and why? How can we avoid it--and should we even try?
The practical definition of save-scumming is somewhat controversial. I think the safest way to describe it is "using a save-game feature to manipulate the outcome of events by repeating the same passage of play until you get the results you want." (If you think I'm missing a key part of the concept, please let me know in the comments.)
In order to predict save-scumming behavior in a given game, we must come to an understanding of why a player would even want to save-scum. Save-scumming isn't a particularly fun thing to do in a game: it consists of the administrative tasks of managing saves and, in many games, repeatedly sitting at loading screens, and repeatedly doing basically the same few actions in the same context. This is the kind of repetition that I think most gamers would say games should dispense with all together, yet gamers find themselves obliged to do it.
So why would anyone save-scum?
When the consequences of failure in a game are significant and may snowball into large amounts of player-time loss, save-scumming becomes a common behavior if the saving mechanics permit it. This is a natural defense mechanism, and actually fits the original purpose of saving your game, which is to prevent the time-loss caused by having to replay the game from the beginning every time you boot it up.
I argue that save-scumming is a reaction to poor game design. Game designers are responsible for the level of fun optimal play allows their players. If optimal play involves save-scumming, I believe the player experience is usually compromised by optimal play--I don't find the administrative juggling of save-games to be fun. The best games benefit from forcing the player to accept failure and work within the confines it may impose. This isn't easy to do in game design, though, and most mainstream games have no interest in even trying because it's just too potentially dangerous to marketability and accessibility. The Demons' Souls and Dark Souls have had partial but notable success in this area, which may begin to turn the tide.
Players will save-scum when they feel that is the only way to play optimally and prevent what they feel may be excessive time-loss. I would not fault players for this behavior, because it could be made impractical or avoided entirely by alterations in game design. Games should only allow save-scumming when it's designed into the content and systems. Failure can be an enriching experience that does a great job of contextualizing success, though, so I would not advocate designing save-scummy games just because it's easier.
Games that force you to save and reload frequently can seem save-scummy, but frequent saving and loading may be an important design feature in certain kinds of games. Some games are intense tests of the players' ability to execute maneuvers with a low margin of error. Super Meat Boy or I Wanna Be The Guy allow you to keep trying the newer-to-you parts of the game without having to ceaselessly replay hard parts that you've already struggled with and overcome. A save point can be a reward in such a case, and I hesitate to claim that the constant dance of failure and automatic reloading is save-scumming. It seems to fit the design of those games well, and, as such, shouldn't have a negative connotation attached to it.
Limited player agency may also push players to desire save-scumming. If you get a series of bad dice rolls in an RPG that causes some serious consequences, it's understandable to be upset and feel that the game is being unfair. When I play Madden games, I often have a strong desire to quit the game because some ridiculous event occurs during play that is so unrealistic and unpredictable to me that I feel it has compromised the representation of football. Sometimes it's just an emotional reaction to throwing a dumb interception, but most of the time it's from terrible dice rolls or omniscient linebackers who behave as if they can see out of the backs of their helmets. When a game disenfranchises me as a player, I don't have any qualms about reloading a save and trying again. If a game is well-designed, you shouldn't feel the need to reload in this fashion.
But what if you want players to accept the results of randomness and incorporate the variable nature of results into their strategizing? You can build in re-roll mechanics so that players can even take some agency in randomness and don't feel like they have absolutely no recourse against results that are obviously out of their control. You can also place a barrier to save-scumming by doing what XCOM did: store your random number generator seeds with the save-games to make it impossible to scum on that scale. A little push in the right direction can break the spell of save-scumming and let players have fun playing the game as it was intended.
Saving mechanisms in games provide a way to mitigate time-loss, but also let the player do some repetitive result-selection outside of the game mechanics that can lead to optimal play being boring. With careful design, I think we can remove save-scumming from the games we make, and continue to use saving for its intended purpose and not as a perverse optimization tool.
Games From the Ground Up: Primordial Play
In order to understand game design, you must first understand play.
Play is experimentation. The concept of playing with your food and the concept of eating food are distinct because playing with food involves using it not for its primary purpose, but experimenting with alternate purposes. Building a tower out of mashed potatoes is an experiment that shows you the structural properties of mashed potatoes; rolling carrots around on your plate shows you how their conic shape leads to a unique rolling pattern, and how their irregularities in form lead to them rolling at different speeds and bumping around in different ways. Once you establish the physical properties of the carrots and mashed potatoes through experimentation, you can continue your play by further experimenting with extremes: how high can my mashed potato tower get? Can I get my carrots to roll to this specific spot on my plate? Experimentation is fun, and we have to be stopped from doing it by force--either by force of the displeasure of your parents, or by physical restraint--or complete (enough) understanding.
Play is a natural behavior exhibited in mammalian species. There are myriad reasons why those who tend to play would not have been evolutionarily weeded out of the gene pool. Compare the fitness of two primordial people: one of them lazes around when not hunting; the other spends a portion of his non-hunting time throwing spears at a circle he has carved into a distant tree. Who will be more socially prepared and well-adjusted: children who play at being mothers and fathers and mime responsibilities they'll have in adulthood, or children who spend that time eating or sleeping or sitting quietly? Play prepared our ancestors for the rigors of life, both social and physical. Play seems to fill the role of simulating future experiences so that those who perform well in play will perform better than average on those activities when they must be done for real.
Children will enjoy playing solo when they're learning about their environment and capabilities. They will play to test their abilities and mimic the behaviors of those they look up to. Play is often free-form and solo, but can involve cooperation, even at a very young age. Usually the play of children is not obviously confined by any rules but those of the physical universe. Rules become apparent and emerge naturally when play becomes a social activity. Children arrive at rules while playing in order to express their will and establish conventions so that the play of other children can interact with shared resources amenably. Rules are social conventions. Rules mentally communicate the imaginary "laws of the universe" that the child tacitly invents for his toys. Now, of course, the child won't necessarily keep these rules constant within a play session, but clearly the child's decision of who can and does do what action isn't entirely arbitrary. In play there seems usually to be a sense of world-modeling: the child represents in his play world ideas and processes he's been exposed to, often recombining those ideas in novel ways instead of merely repeating them as practice.
Social cooperation leads playing children to attempt to establish rules, but these rules aren't all we need to arrive at what we would today call games. In order to solidify the experience of play within a system of rules, those rules need to be institutionalized and recognized by players--not merely ad hoc created to resolve social conflicts as they arise during play. In my next post, I will address this process of institutionalizing play, and discuss how an individual game is born.
Stagnant MMOs
Posted by motstandet at 12:53 PM
This is a response for a discussion in the comments on Spinks' post Bring on the clones.
I find that both the ways in which players interact and the game systems (not necessarily just Combat) of the MMO space have been mostly stagnant for the last 8 years. There have been minor attempts to mix it up (e.g. AoC's melee combat, Aion's jet packs, Public Quests, Dungeon Finder), but the developers still copy "the same black and white, two-faction faux war with safe and 'contested' zones; the same action combat with the same pace, hotbars, and skills; the same solo quest grind with the occasional dungeon run; the same poo-pooed crafting system that has little consequence to players; the same 'hyrbid' classes which really aren't hybrids at all, but rather 3 min-maxed role specializations that are the Holy Trinity through and through" (link).
I play very few games. I find one that has enough complexity and depth (often requires multiplayer in order to uncover that depth) such that I stick with it for years until I've exhausted its playability. I love First-Person Shooters, but I only really love 3 of them: Goldeneye/Perfect Dark, Counter-Strike, and Team Fortress 2. These are all vastly different games. They all play differently; they have distinct strategies, resources, tactical considerations, objectives, moods, etc. To highlight a variation, Counter-Strike is about concealment and weapon accuracy/bullet spread; TF2 is about evasion, keeping or closing distance, and reloading. Never mind that a shotgun in both games is the same; the situations and tactics for using it are very different (and must be learned).
I've played very few MMOs as well: FFXI, WoW, and now Eve. I have purchased or trialed many others (EQ2, LotRO, WAR, Guild Wars, AoC, Chronicles of Spellborn, Tabula Rasa, Global Agenda, Champions Online, Ryzom, Aion, Rift, Vanguard, Dawntide, Darkfall, FF14, and The Secret World). FFXI, WoW, and Eve have drastically dissimilar game systems.
FFXI is about cooperation: working with players to level up, complete challenging quests, or make money. Crafting was a motivator for me to expand my character's available classes and gain more levels. It has an extremely friendly community and many group activities: slower-paced, group-oriented combat, XP groups, epically long quests, arena-style fights to earn money, raids, PvP, and group crafting.
Eve is deceit and information warfare. It is a struggle between knowing that you need friends to move up in the world and not knowing whom to trust. Its community has an outward appearance of borderline psychotic, but within Corporations, players are friendly to each other and willing to do activities together. Eve is a sandbox and has the most content of any MMORPG ever, and thus newer players have a monstrous time just getting their barrings. Nothing in Eve is simple, and there are many ways to enjoy the game.
WoW offers convenience and satisfying gameplay. It has extremely snappy and fast-paced combat, and very little in terms of a virtual world. It is about using people as briefly as possible to acquire the next achievement. WoW is two distinct games: the leveling game, and the game at level cap. Hop in for a few minutes, do a quest or two by yourself, and log out without interacting with anyone. Or if you're at level cap, you do chores by yourself, queue up for a dungeon without speaking, or maybe you have a scheduled raid where you recite a dance that has no transferable knowledge or skills (to another raid).
Most of the games I listed in parentheses above are very similar to WoW. While the classes might look different, or the spells be named something unfamiliar, or the setting be changed, they all follow the same template.
A solo leveling game with a dungeon/raid-heavy "end" game produces the same community as I experienced in WoW.
Since everyone must be capable of soloing mobs, the combat abilities can't vary too wildly between classes.
If combat is fast-paced, players have enough time to launch two, maybe three attacks before moving on to the next mob; this necessitates that combat be wholly uninteresting since you only need to use 3 abilities.
Typically the mobs are not varied enough to require players to consider a different set of 3 skills, because that would be too disruptive and slow down the pace of leveling.
When developers describe a system akin to Public Quests, they are talking about an exception. I can read between the lines: combat is normally performed by yourself, but then the game has these exceptions scattered about where you work with other players. The sad part is that very little coordination is required during the PQ, and people rarely converse. Playing alone together at its finest.
If I can look at a list of game features, and envision my entire career with the game (solo quest grind, occasional dungeon, switch class, solo to max, chase after gear and reputation), then I've already played it in another form, and thus I'm not interested in playing it again.
Labels: emergent gameplay, eve, ffxi, grinding, group play, innovation, leveling, mmo revolution, mmorpg genre progression, mmorpgs, quests, solo play, wow
Uncapped PvE Content and Prestige
Posted by motstandet at 2:17 PM
Spinks pointed out the irony of WoW's 10-man raids: namely that the raids are too small to sustain a guild around a 10-man raid team. Raids were reduced in player count because of logistics and accessibility concerns. Now they are so small that they cause logistics and accessibility issues. /ironic
This reminded me about uncapped PvE content. WoW used to have uncapped encounters in the form of world bosses, and it will be getting some new ones in Mists. Rifts are uncapped, as well as other forms of Public Quests. PvE content in Eve has no player count limit. Many of the original raids in EQ and FFXI were also uncapped.
It's important to note that there are no "balance scaling" mechanics in these systems. Mobs don't receive extra HP with every player at the fight. Nor does more money or gear drop depending on the raid size.
There are some advantages to unrestricted PvE encounters:
Bring as many friends as you want. No one has to be second string or on the bench.
Bring as few friends as online. You don't need to cancel the raid if one player doesn't show up, because the encounter is not necessarily attuned for X number of players.
Risk and Reward are inherently balanced. Larger the party, the less risk involved, but fewer payouts per person.
Challenge is self-ordained. Make the fight as easy or hard as you want.
Pick-up-groups could do any content. ++Accessibility
I see four reasons that players raid:
Story/Content
Power (e.g. character progression, money, gear)
Players interested in fulfilling the needs of Story, Power, and Challenge will have their needs met by the uncapped system. Players can easily experience any content they wish; they simply need to bring enough bodies. They can toy with risk and reward to modify the power payouts. And they can adjust the difficulty by inviting a different number of raiders.
Those seeking Prestige, however, will not be happy with an uncapped raid. If the encounter were a signal of prestige, and because of its challenge or accessibility, predicates that the access or completion of the content is rare, then Prestige players would want as few people in that elite club as possible. The scarcer the resource, then the more valuable it is deemed. The rarer the achievement, then the more distinction it bears.
Some times there is confusion regarding the difference between Prestige and Challenge. Prestige certainly can and often does derive from Challenge. If a task is difficult, then fewer people are capable of completing it, thus making the success rarer. But Prestige can come from a time commitment: e.g. level 99 in Diablo 2. If everyone were dedicated enough to reach level 99, it would not be prestigious (like level 85 in WoW).
The Achievements you unlock, the gear you wear, and the stories you tell are trophies that signal your prestige. The more people with those trophies, then the less special they are. But the players seeking content, money, and challenge will all be having fun.
From a development and design perspective, less time needs to be allocated to meticulously balance and rebalance fights. Obviously the encounter payouts need to be in line with other content so that players have an actual choice. But there is no need for a scheduled nerfing or complex algorithms that adjust the difficulty based on the number of players. Let us decide our level of risk, reward, and challenge.
Labels: balancing, challenge, chance, character progression, choice, combat, diablo, eve, group play, loot, player motivation, raiding, wow
Towards Smarter Loot Systems
Posted by evizaer at 8:21 AM
The typical way that I see loot working in ARPGs is simple randomization of attributes based on item type and a percentage chance. Roll a many-sided die and look up the result in the table, repeat this several times and you have your loot.
I don't think this is the best way to calculate what drops in an ARPG.
What matters is that players have interesting decisions to make with regards to gear--decisions that aren't as simple as seeing that 10% more damage is less than 15% more damage. You can generate interesting decisions here in a much more directed fashion than just dropping fully randomized but scaled-by-level loot.
When designing a loot system, we have to answer two questions:
How often should you be upgrading your equipment?
How often should you see a piece of gear that you have to consider as an upgrade?
We can think it through and exert control over it, or we can put some percentage chances in a loot table and hope that everything turns out OK. I'd prefer to design the loot system to guarantee as fun an experience as I can. That means taking more control over the kinds of modifiers that appear on items dropped for each class.
I think that if you have to consider a lot of loot and a high percentage of that loot has no value to you even before you put it in your inventory, you feel like you're wading through crap. The longer you go without interesting drops, the more bored you will become. This produces a feeling of "farming", which I don't think is a positive experience. It has negative connotations because gamers don't like doing it--farming is a reduction of the game to a tedious harvesting task that you could easily hire daylaborers to do and be better off. Tasks like that don't belong in games, they're an artifact of artificial difficulty and/or poorly or underdesigned gameplay.
The game should be aware of what would be an upgrade for you and what wouldn't. Upgrades should be dropped based on what you fight within a certain number of minutes of "challenging" combat. Don't even bother dropping trash. Only drop loot that is a sidegrade or an upgrade, and only drop loot that is equippable. Based on statistical and forum feedback the algorithm can be tweaked.
The game should be able to learn what modifiers people tend to pick on their items, and what people tend to put together. Based on these patterns for each, sidegrades can be generated that suit the kinds of builds that people actually use. In the beginning, such as system would need to be seeded with playtester-approved build information, and some noise would need to be added to the weights in the randomization of items in order to ensure that every character isn't siphoned into one of a few builds.
I think the current set of modifications and the way they work in Diablo III is well-suited towards this kind of system. If the longevity of the game is predicated on farming, as Diablo III's seems to be, my idea can still be effective, but may not be in the developers' best interest. What you really need is an end to the game--a feature that makes roguelikes great and has been lost along the development of ARPGs away from the roguelike foundation. But that's a topic for another post.
Labels: ARPGs, character progression, Diablo III, game mechanics, loot
The Specialization Trap
Posted by evizaer at 10:15 AM
A trap that many ARPG designs fall into is overspecialization in the face of relatively permanent character advancement decisions. Path of Exile is a great illustration of the pitfalls of optimal play revolving around specializing your character using permanent decisions over a long span of play time.
PoE has an extremely large and intricate skill tree which allows significant specialization: down to the weapon type level--swords, axes, etc and element (fire, lightning, etc) level. You'll need to look for specific weapons and items that suit your specialization choices.
This is damaging to the ARPG model. ARPGs are a combination of various treadmills that complement one another: loot, character level, ability levels, and perhaps a few more (Din's Curse had "reputation" which would grant you a relatively viable rare weapon upon leveling up). An emphasis on specialization limits the character construction decisions (once you've picked the specialization, you jump pump points into that indefinitely) and loot decisions, cutting off significant branches of the decision tree. The more equipment-related specialization, the fewer pieces of loot a character will find that can possibly be upgrades. A character can easily go from having a 20% chance of finding a relevant piece of loot because he specializes in one-handed weapons, to a less than 5% chance because he has been forced to specialize further, perhaps into one-handed swords, in order to continue getting damage and/or accuracy bonuses from new passive skills.
ARPG players are familiar and fond of systems that involve an extreme amount of character choice permanence. Diablo II's attribute and skill points were non-refundable, and the pattern of severely punishing the uninformed by making character decisions irreversible does not enter the consideration of the majority of ARPG-players who grew up playing Diablo and Diablo II. Titan Quest and Din's Curse made a step forward in this regard by allowing point-by-point respecs at escalating prices. Torchlight, the most casual-friendly ARPG I have played, doesn't have respecs built into the game at all--the only way to respec is to use a console command to spawn a respec potion.
Overspecialization leads to minute-by-minute play being less interesting. If you need to invest a high percentage of your points into a very small number of abilities to make them effective, then you're naturally going to be filtering your ability choices by which abilities you have spent points on. Abilities available are further filtered by what loot you have available to you. In the majority of ARPGs you end up in a situation where you have at most two or three useful abilities--sometimes you'll only have one. When you have no more than two or three tools to work with, it's harder for combat to remain engaging.
Spamming a single ability and watching everything die can only remain fun for a little while unless you are specifically looking for a relaxing experience. Unfortunately, the theorycrafting involved in making an adequate character often is beyond the interests of a relaxed player, so they wouldn't get to the point where they could effectively do one ability spam. The mechanical systems thus lead to patterns of play which are not appealing to the kinds of players that have the capacity to use that style of play.
Permanent point-investment schemes also lead to perverse incentives for building characters. You really shouldn't spend points on skills beyond what you specifically need to get to that highest level skill that you want to specialize in. When optimal play is to not participate in the character advancement and be underpowered for tens of hours so that you can be somewhat above average later, the game clearly suffers.
The reasoning and evidence above would indicate that specialization-focused design is poor design.
So why do players seem to like it so much? A game like Diablo II is a complexly layered system of rewards that vary in intensity and frequency in such a way as to draw us in and addict us. Players have trouble separating the fun and not fun mechanics of a game when they are layered as they are in Diablo II. The rewards systems are strong and interleaved into all other mechanics of the game, so it's hard to separate skill tree manipulation and loot sifting from the enjoyable feeling of character progress. Those activities do contribute to character progress, but their design isn't trivial to separate from that positive feeling.
Good ARPG design is much more than simply causing the player to have the positive feeling of character progress, it's optimizing that feeling to happen in as intense and frequent a way as possible without it being diluted by overexposure. It's a difficult balancing and timing act, and different players have higher engagement at different points along the spectrum between constant rewards and rare rewards, large rewards and small rewards.
In games that feature overspecialization, you'll notice that combat tends to reduce to the repeated use of a couple of skills at most. This trivializes combat and turns it into a chore. When combat is a chore, in order to enjoy the game you must enjoy the minmaxing of character construction, which in ARPGs is done via loot sifting and planning/spending skill and attribute points. So the games' fanbases naturally require their members to enjoy that minmaxing and not mind somewhat boring combat.
ARPGs can have exciting combat and enjoyable character advancement. Diablo III is proof. I hope to discuss Diablo III's success in a future article.
Labels: ARPGs, Diablo III, Din's Curse, game design, game mechanics, mechanic assessment, Path of Exile, skill-based systems, specialization
"Fun", Biases, and Game Design Analysis
I prefer to analyze games as mechanical systems that can aim to produce certain kinds of experiences that fall in the group of experiences we classify as "fun."
You can also analyze games along the different--and, I believe, orthogonal--axis of artistic merit.
The focus of this blog has been the deep analysis of mechanical systems and not "higher meaning." The analysis of higher meaning can indeed be valuable and will be more valuable in the far future, but the most interesting problems I see in gaming are honing mechanics to generate fun experiences, and also honing mechanics for fun competitive and cooperative play.
Fun alone is not a particularly useful term because we all experience it and categorize it differently--sometimes so differently that one person's fun is entirely distinct and unrecognizable from another person's fun. Two people may not enjoy ANY of the same games. We need to break the vague concept of "fun" down into a few categories that can be concretely examined without running into such immense walls of subjectivity. Here are several classifications I've arrived at through lots of reading and playing:
Relaxing by doing something easy with nice graphics and tickling rewards.
Slot-machine/Skinner Box--big exponential pay-offs that keep you on edge and keen to see what happens next.
Spectation--see what happens because you are invested in the result and enjoy the drama of the situation.
Physical Mastery--become engaged with the tasks the game puts before you and learn how to do them best, fastest, etc.
Intellectual Curiosity--become exposed to increasingly interesting problems to ponder and solve, where planning your solution is the enjoyable experience.
There may be more than that. I welcome you to comment with additional classifications or flaws in what I've stated here.
Different people will experience these kinds of fun to different degrees in various contexts. A player's capacity to experience each type of fun depends on personality, mood, physical ability, mental ability, and social factors.
My interests primarily lie in the last three of those categorizations. My analysis is biased in their favor. You should be aware of this and keep it in mind when you read my other articles. My perspective will be most valuable to you if you are interested in the design of competitive and/or cooperative skill-oriented games.
As a pundit in the game design field (I'm hoping to actually make a game to show off, but there are always more excuses to be found) I think it's in everyone's best interest that you disclose your biases and preferences so that people can be less angry and antagonistic. If we acknowledge our biases and the ways in which we think about games, we can make progress towards avoiding talking past one another and, I bet, have productive discussions more regularly.
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Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Delirium (Delirium, #1)
by Lauren Oliver
Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing. They didn’t understand that once love -the deliria- blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the governments demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Holoway has always looked forward to the day when she’ll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy.
But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable: She falls in love.
"I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever."
Earlier this year, I fell in love with Lauren Oliver's debut, Before I Fall. So understandably, I was very excited to hear about her next book, Delirium. A dystopian world where love is a disease, written by the clearly very talented Oliver? Yeah, I can get behind that. I settled in to wait the long, cruel months until the February release date, when I got a surprise package in the mail from the Polish Outlander -- her ARC of Delirium! Imagine my delight. I held off reading it for a few days, just to give myself some distance from Matched, which has a very similar concept, and which I'd just finished. But I didn't want to wait too long, so, similarities be damned, I went ahead and read it.
I'm going to try to not keep comparing this to Matched, which isn't fair -- Matched had its own review, after all -- but I do have to say that, though each is its own thing, the similarities are pretty strong, and my reaction to each was the same -- I wanted so much more than I got.
Lest you think this review is wholly negative, let me start with the things I did like. I love the concept, and think it has the potential to be really powerful and fascinating. There is a flow to it most of the time that kept me reading even when I was frustrated by other things. And there are these moments that shine through, these beautiful little word gems that Oliver creates, that reminds me of why I loved Before I Fall, and why I was so excited to read this.
But I was so very, very excited for this that I think I was even more let down by it than Matched, which was also something I was eager for. Before I Fall was fresh and compelling, and I felt like so much of Oliver, so much heart and so much work, went into it. I didn't feel the same about Delirium. I'm not going to accuse Oliver of selling out or hopping on a trend, but I do wonder how much passion was behind this story. It seemed sort of sloppy (and yes, I know, I read an ARC, and that may account for some of it). But there were so many inconsistencies and questions I had that I couldn't ever commit. I could only go along so far until logic would intrude. I would be forced to ask myself things like, If Lena was just bitten (badly) in the leg by a dog, why does Alex kissing her seem to erase not only any pain, but even any mention of the bite, until it's like an afterthought? How does her family not notice that either a) she's wearing pants in the middle of sweltering August, and limping, or b) she's not wearing pants and the scar is showing and she's limping? Because it has to be one of those 2 things. And though the "cure" may not make them care for her safety so much, it doesn't take away their suspicious natures. [Also, setting aside the fact that she walked home, how did they just walk home? Just like that. With raiding parties everywhere, and her bitten terribly, they just strolled on home, illegally, down the street? How do they get away with all the shit they get away with, in this repressive society? Hmm...] Things like this were peppered throughout the story, and they just made it nearly impossible to buy in to what was going on.
Smaller things, too, like words and phrases and things we have now that I don't see any use for, or don't believably buy would be in the world Oliver created. And, of course, the much bigger things, like how did all this -- the discovery of the "deliria", the cure, the restrictions, the beliefs, all of it -- come to be? I know it may not be what Lauren intended, but with such a seemingly science-influenced dystopia, I need some good scientific reasoning, some "evidence" -- real or gov't created -- that backs everything up, some explanation or plausible scenario that lets this total overhaul of human beliefs and passions come to be in a matter of 60 years or so. That's a very, VERY brief period of time for such a huge and total change to take place, so I need reality to intrude a little. I need either some hints of a really big conspiracy, or something so huge and devastating that people as a whole almost go into a state of shock or numbness that allows this to happen. Because, as a general rule, people don't willingly submit to mass lobotomies or the eradication of their feelings for the people they love -- or hate -- without some serious something acting as a catalyst. Petty strife and crimes of passion may make you think of Eternal Sunshining your mind spotless, but in an abstract, angry, wouldn't-it-be-lovely kind of way, and not a bring-on-the-procedure kind of way. Some science, some history, some dogma, some thing beyond the sometimes eerie, sometimes meh snippets of "texts" that start every chapter, would have gone a long way toward helping me willingly suspend my disbelief.
But even if I could have set the worldbuilding and believability aside -- no easy task in a concept novel like this -- for it to be saved, the characters and plot would have had to really shine.
But I felt like everything was a little wooden, a little cardboard, a little less than believable and real. The love interest, Alex, was okay enough, but why should Lena care about him, and why should I? I understand why he cares about Lena, but that's not something we really find out until Lena is already head over heels infected/in love, and I don't understand how she got there. As a reader, in order to take that leap with a character, we need to know why, we need to feel it. All I got was that he was a boy who payed attention to her, he winked, he smiled, he seemed a bit smarmy and she's hooked. Now, yes, I get that's enough for a teenage infatuation, and it may be heightened by the taboo nature of it. I even get that his more easy manner reminded Lena of her mother, who was incurable.
But for Lena, who has always been terrified of the deliria, which tore her world apart, and who has always looked forward to her procedure, and been so afraid of stepping out of the box, who is afraid to say, to even hear, the word love -- for her to completely flip and become reckless and passionate and all the other stuff that comes with being the things she's always feared...hmm. The only way this really works for me, the only thing that would make me buy it and appreciate it, was if it took the slant that the deliria was real and she'd become infected. Otherwise, I have no choice but to think this is a cheesy, run of the mill YA romance where one look from a guy makes a girl throw her entire being out the window and become a swooning, fluttery mess with no relation to the person she once was, and who would die for the roguish boy she knows nothing about. Which is, apparently, what every teenage girl is secretly waiting to do.
Maybe the deliria is real.
Here's my teaser:
I couldn't find a trailer, though the ARC says there will be one, but here's Lauren Oliver talking about the genesis of the story:
Labels: Delirium, dystopia, Lauren Oliver, review, YA
Mrs. DeRaps December 19, 2010 at 4:27 PM
I can see what you're saying about some of the inconsistencies in this novel...Maybe some of them will be cleared up for the final proof. It was hard for me to not compare this book to Matched as well. Overall, though, I did really buy into the story and loved the setting (because it's in Maine, where I live and all of the streets and such are real).
I am eager to read the next book in this series, but I guess that'll be awhile.
Amber Reed December 20, 2010 at 12:48 PM
I'll have to remember to put some space between Matched and this one!
Beth W April 7, 2013 at 2:13 PM
Thank you so much! I felt the EXACT same way after reading it. I hate when a book's concept is better than its storytelling- and I was disappointed by Delirium for the exact same reasons (also, the concept of love as a disease was smacking me in the face every darned chapter, which got tiring, and the fact that nobody questioned it ever in any way was....well, unbelievable. I was waiting for more "Equilibrium"- the movie- but never got it).
Misty April 7, 2013 at 6:08 PM
Yes! It's especially disappointing when you know the author CAN pull off high concept - she did with Before I Fall just fine.
Ohh! this is the first review I read that challenged the book, and I mean that in a good way. I have to say, I absolutely adored the series, but I understand where you're coming from. Now I want some closure too! I suppose I was too swept away to really question anything, but now that you point it out, there are several flaws. Great review! I really enjoyed reading your perspective of the book since it differed from my love of it (Yes, I have the disease for the book, haha)
Misty October 3, 2013 at 11:24 PM
Thank you! And yes, sometimes you can be so caught up in a book that you don't realize its flaws, though you see them clearly in hindsight - and that's okay. It's good to enjoy it if you can, I think, but I expected so much more, knowing how well Oliver can pull off a big concept book.
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Wednesday's Broadcast Ratings: "Empire" Returns on Top for FOX
The network's juggernaut is also up from its December finale among adults 18-49.
FYI Celebrates Best Quarter Ever in Key Adults and Women
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Tuesday's Broadcast Ratings: "Chicago" Dramas Rise in NBC Victory
"Chicago Fire" and "Chicago Med" both return up double digits for the Peacock among adults 18-49.
"The Voice" Is the #1 Show of the Night in 18-49, "Chicago Med" and "Chicago Fire" Tie for #2
NBC spins the numbers for Tuesday, March 29.
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Monday's Broadcast Ratings: "The Voice" Rises in Latest Victory for NBC
The Peacock easily wins the night among adults 18-49.
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Sunday's Broadcast Ratings: NBC Tops Demo Race with "Little Big Shots"
The Peacock wins the night among adults 18-49 in a competitive holiday race.
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The Eye's primetime portion averages over 10 million viewers last night.
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The Eye easily wins the night in both total viewers and adults 18-49.
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Thursday's Broadcast Ratings: NCAA Tournament Sparks Demo Victory for CBS
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ABC's "The Catch" Debut Beats NBC's "Shades of Blue" by Double Digits
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"Criminal Minds" is up more than 10% from last week among adults 18-49 for the Eye.
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NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC Wins the Night Again in Key Demos
ESPN spins the numbers for Saturday, March 19.
Monday's Broadcast Ratings: "The Voice" Tops Demos, "DWTS" Return Leads Viewers
NBC is still the network to beat among adults 18-49.
Sunday's Broadcast Ratings: CBS, FOX & NBC All Share Demo Crown
The Eye, with its NCAA Overrun, however is the most-watched network overall for the night.
"Little Big Shots" Ranks #1 in Primetime Sunday Night on the Big 4 in 18-49 and Total Viewers
NBC spins the numbers for Sunday, March 20.
Saturday's Broadcast Ratings: CBS, NCAA Hold Off ABC, NBA
The Eye wins the basketball showdown among total viewers and adults 18-49.
"Dateline Mystery" Delivers Its Most-Watched Episode Since Its October Season Premiere
Friday's Broadcast Ratings: CBS Wins Demo Race with NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament
Said coverage leads the night among adults 18-49 for the Eye.
All 4 of ABC's Friday Shows Gain Viewers and Young Adults
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"When Calls the Heart" Breaks Hallmark Channel's Social Media Records for the 3rd Consecutive Week
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Thursday's Broadcast Ratings: FOX Tops Both Viewers and Demos with "American Idol"
ABC however shares in the adults 18-49 honors while both networks hold off the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament on CBS.
"Shades of Blue" Maintains 100% Week to Week in 18-49 & Hits a Four-Week High in Total Viewers
ABC Ranks No. 1 on Thursday With Adults 18-49, Delivering the Night's Top 3 Dramas for the 6th Week Running
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"The Real O'Neals" Holds Nearly All of Its Week-Ago Premiere
"Crowded" Generates Strong Sampling, Wins in Every Key Measure
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"Underground" Premiere Shatters Records as the Most-Watched Program in Nearly 18 Years on WGN America
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"Little Big Shots" and "The Carmichael Show" claim the number one and two spots among adults 18-49.
"Little Big Shots" Is NBC's Most-Watched Regular Sunday Entertainment Telecast Since 2005
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Borgeous Drops Highly Anticipated EP ‘Lights Out’
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LA based DJ/Producer Borgeous has dropped his brand new Lights Out EP which features four tracks carefully pieced together into one masterful soundtrack.
“Everybody” blasts through the speakers with sharp synths, pitched vocals, and chopped drop cycles which create constantly rising energy levels. “Bad Boi” stays with a swift tempo and comes in heavy on the percussion with a roaring bassline. “Runnin” layers in vocals alongside a classic mix of dubstep and big room house components. Borgeous uses “Another Day” as the peak of the EP, utilizing the dynamic builds and powerful riffs constantly.
“I usually put a lot of focus on music with crossover appeal, but I’ve always loved playing out the hard stuff in my sets. So I decided to make an EP of records that I get excited to play out and put into my live edits.” – Borgeous
Borgeous has seen tremendous success since his beginnings with his debut LP, 13 which hit number one on iTunes in 2016. He continued his rise to fame with remixes for the likes of Marshmello & Anne-Marie alongside major solo cuts such as “Make Me Yours” and “Famous.” Recently, he released “Leave (feat. Jordyn Jones),” which inspired a remix collection, and also “Better Anyway” with RUNAGROUND.
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Everton Into FA Cup Final Knocking Man Utd Out On Penalties
Is Sir Alex starting to crack up under all the pressure? First he was party to what can only be described as a pre-planned and joint attack by himself and Blackburn boss Sam Allardyce on Liverpool manager Benitez, claiming that the Spaniard was disrespectful to both Allardyce and Blackburn following Liverpool’s second goal at Anfield last weekend. Rubbish!
From the evidence I’ve seen, the situation looks clear. Benitez was gesticulating at Xabi Alsono, who was taking the free-kick that lead to the goal, to play a particular ball into the box, Alonso obviously didn’t agree, played in the ball he thought was best and it lead to Torres scoring the second ball. Benitez then clearly makes a gesture and uses an expression that states in a joking way, “ok, that’s enough ordering from me, what do I know!”
The accusations by Ferguson and Allardyce are quite laughable. How either of them have the gall to come with such a theory that Benitez was blantantly suggesting to everyone that the second goal meant the game was over and Blackburn were dead and buried is awful. Maybe Sir Alex just wanted to get back at Benitez, again, for the equally stupid rant in the middle of January that Benitez launched at the Scot.
Whatever is going on, and I suspect is has a lot to do with Sir Alex being very worried about the prospects of Liverpool somehow pulling off the unlikely to win the Premier League title, it really getting quite boring and puerile. It’s like a bunch of kids in the school playground at breaktime arguing and trying to settle the fight by claiming “my dad’s bigger than yours!” Just get on with it and let your teams do the talking on the pitch, please!
Then yesterday, Ferguson sent a clear message to everyone, including the money grabbing FA (playing semi finals at Wembley!) that the FA Cup was clearly a poor third relation and really not worth winning if it means stopping Liverpool winning the title and retaining the Champions League. Well, I’m sure that’s what most people would think too but his reasoning for putting out a second string team to face Everton at Wembley was again laughable. Apparently the pitch was so bad he couldn’t allow his top players to run around on it. No sure what that makes players like Ferdinand and Vidic! Then there was no way that he could play his top players again after playing only a few days earlier in the Champions League.
Hmm! Let’s see, I’m sure there’s a rather big whole in that particular argument somewhere. Oh, what is it now? Oh yes, I know. Which two teams played in the other FA Cup semi final a day earlier after also having played the the Champions League during the week? Yes, that’s right, Arsenal and Chelsea. And I don’t recall either of those two teams fielding their Under 21 sides.
Plus you could also argue that Ferguson, after claiming that Benitez was disrespectful to Blackburn and Allardyce, that he was equally disrespectful to Everton and David Moyes for fielding the majority of the Utd youth team, although they nearly pulled it off, didn’t they!)
Then, not wanting to make Arsene Wenger look like a sore loser cry baby all by himself, Sir Alex then came out after the defeat to Everton on penalties to claim it was that pesky pitch again that was to blame for his sides exit from the Cup. It was the same for all four teams and I might be wrong or just not seen it yet, but I don’t believe either Guus Hiddinck or David Moyes were complaining about the state of the pitch or stating it was the reason their team won.
Well yes, I have gone off on a rant but these managers really do get on my nerves sometimes with their spin and back stabbing. They make politicians look like kindergarten children at times. It’s right up there for me with players who roll around on the ground as if they have a broken leg then as soon as the award goes their way they are up and running around again like a five year old. Just get on with it you purile bunch of overpaid prima donnas!
Ah, that’s better. Now back to the FA Cup semi final against Everton and Man Utd…… Everton won on penalties and will face Chelsea in the Final. Not much else you can say really. It was a boring game with the penalties being the only real exciting bit. Oh, and if anyone can tell me of a worse penalty than the one taken by Berbatov, and I mean in the history of penalties, please let me know. What a disgrace! If he was trying to be all cool and nonchalant, I think we can all agree that it really didn’t work!
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Really rough day for the Canadian Human Rights (sic) Commission
Really rough day for the Canadian Human Rights (sic) Commission (my emphasis in red):
"Investigators at the Canadian Human Rights Commission share control of an online identity called Jadewarr, which they have used to anonymously monitor and contribute to controversial far-right and white supremacist Web sites, in a strategy that a prominent defendant calls entrapment.
The admission came in testimony Tuesday at the final day of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal's hearing in the case of Marc Lemire, who is charged with violating the Human Rights Act's controversial hate speech section because of comments posted on his FreedomSite.
Legally, the admission by CHRC investigator Dean Steacy, and the subsequent cross-examination by Mr. Lemire's lawyers, was the most significant part of the day, in that it bolstered Mr. Lemire's case that he should not be held accountable for what others post on his site, especially if those others are government employees."
"There were moments of drama, such as when Mr. Steacy bluntly and repeatedly refused to answer a question (he was asked for the identity of an anonymous complainant, who never filed a formal complaint), to the evident shock of Athanasios Hadjis, the one-man tribunal hearing the case.
'You refuse to answer?' he said twice."
and (time to investigate themselves!):
"Mr. Steacy himself raised the strange hypothetical scenario of an investigator being charged for online writing that, in the words of section 13.1, is 'likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt.'
'My understanding of the legislation is there's not an exemption for anybody, so that would have to apply to investigators. If an investigator posted hate, then a complaint could be brought against them,' he said."
and (wow!; note how the worst newspaper in the world tries to use this outrage by the Commission to slur the victims of the Commission):
But, for skeptics of human rights commissions, the coup de grace came when the Tribunal wrongly outed an innocent person as a Commission operative, thus exposing her to the unwanted attention of the vast army of bloggers who support Mr. Lemire, or at least do not support the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
For a government agency that has fought for months to protect the personal security of their own staff, even going so far as to (unsuccessfully) invoke national security to keep them off the witness stand, their handling of the 'Nellie Hechme' question was shocking.
Once Mr. Hadjis explicitly ordered him to do so, Mr. Monfette reported that Bell's technical staff learned that whoever logged on as Jadewarr that day in 2006 had accessed the Internet through a Bell account controlled by Nellie Hechme. He gave the phone number and the street address of the apartment where the account was registered.
By the morning coffee break, associates of Mr. Lemire had already tracked down the value of Ms. Hechme's apartment, but not her identity. By the end of the day, the Commission's lawyer Margot Blight said that Ms. Hechme is a mystery to everyone involved, including Mr. Lemire's team.
Reached by phone last night, Ms. Hechme, 26, told the National Post she has no connection to the tribunal, has never known any of the investigators, and has never accessed a Web site as Jadewarr. She said that in the relevant period in 2006 she did have a Bell Sympatico account with a wireless connection that was not password controlled, meaning anyone within range of her apartment could have accessed the internet with it."
It appears that the Commission may have effectively stolen somebody's identity in order to hide what they were up to!
Mr. Lemire's live blogging of the hearing is here and here and here and here and here.
It's a given that Mr Lemire must be acquitted, as he can hardly be held responsible for the wrongful acts of the investigators. We can also go further, and note that every single prosecution by the Commission that involves alleged hate on the internet also has to be voided, as it is impossible to know whether the 'hate' was the work of the accused or some government employee (we can hardly now rely on the employees themselves to tell us they had nothing to do with it). Finally, all the staff of the Commission have to be subject to their own hate crime investigations, which cannot be held by the Commission itself (for obvious reasons). Perhaps the government could appoint a special judge to investigate and prosecute.
You can see know why the Commission wanted this hearing to be private, and why the lawyers for free speech had to force the testimony out of the witness.
We can't forget that the only reason this has turned into a big media circus is because Canadian Muslim groups had the audacity to turn hate crime legislation, traditionally used to promote the idea of Jews as victims, against the Jewish-led international campaign of hatred against Muslims. Canadian human rights law has to be dismantled so Bibi Natanyahu's 'war on terror' can continue to provide the propaganda basis for Israeli colonialism.
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Yahari Analysis
Which brings me to the other part of how volume 11 ended.
>Yeah, I am being stupid. I know how this will end. I’ll be left with nothing. Even so, I want us to think, writhe, struggle, and find… something genuine.
Since early on in the volumes, Hachiman has always been thinking to himself that one day he would lose everything and regret it. However, by the end of the story, did he really lose anything?
In volume 12 Hachiman thinks to himself how he might lose everything, but he still wants to find an answer. An answer to what exactly? Their feelings? He didn’t lose anything after confessing his feelings. Perhaps an answer to something else? Did he end up finding an answer?
Volume 12 begins with an interlude that could belong to either Hachiman or Yukino.
From volume 12:
>I never wanted something genuine that is only cold, cruel and sad.
Something to take note of, is that the person the interlude belongs to realizes that there’s not a lot of time left. Another important thing is that the person believes that the “answer” should be spoken, even if it brings about regrets.
If the interlude belongs to Yukino, then that’s fine because then all it means is that she doesn’t want to hurt her friends.
However, if the interlude belongs to Hachiman, then this idea of genuine would be drastically different from what his initial idea of it was.
Let’s compare Hachiman’s version of “something genuine” of the previous 11 volumes to the one in volume 12.
From the first 11 volumes:
>What I desired wasn’t to get along with someone just for show. It was surely the desire for something genuine. Anything else I didn’t need at all.
>It’s not empty words I’m after. There was something else I desired all along. Not mutual understanding, friendship, companionship or any of the sort. I don’t care about being understood. I simply want to understand. I want to know people inside out.
>I don’t need false understandings or deceptive relationships.
>I wanted something far more cruel and relentless. What I wanted was that sour grape.
>Anything that’s given to you on a silver platter is a sham that will someday be lost.
Even in ANOTHER Hachiman’s desire for something genuine was for the three of them to get closer and know everything about each other, but he gave up on that.
And then finally near the end of volume 11:
>I don’t want any vague answers or superficial relationships. I know how this will end. I’ll be left with nothing. Even so, I want us to think, writhe, struggle, and find… something genuine.
>If in the unlikely future, we are able to live as we like, then I suppose no one would have to suffer. However, I want to discard away all those ideals. I do not possess the strength to continue living in these delusions. On top of self-doubt, I had no wish of telling any lies to those that I care about greatly. That’s why, the answer that I want. I want to obtain the answer I desire without lies.
So, let’s take a look at how volume 12 begins again. Volume 12 came out 2,5 years after volume 11 came out, but canonically speaking it should be about 10-30 minutes after volume 11 ended.
That’s quite a difference. It also doesn’t really help that by the end of the story “something genuine” comes down to “confessing to the girl you like”. In any case, did “something genuine” ever really happen in the main story?
Hachiman wished for a relationships that isn’t conventional in society.
Hachiman and Yukino technically did confess their undying love for each other in volume 14, which is good. However did anything else happen? Like for instance, did Hachiman get to know everything about Yukino? Did Hachiman ever learn about Yukino’s past? Her relationship with Hayama? Her relationship with Haruno or her mother? Did Hachiman ever find out why Yukino is so traumatized or neglected by her family? Did Hachiman ever find out what Yukino’s intentions have been towards him since the beginning, namely that Yukino wanted to save him? Did Hachiman ever find out who Hayama’s “Y” is? In these final three volumes, did Hachiman really learn anything new about any of the characters?
In volume 12 Hachiman admits that the three of them know barely anything about each other’s personal lives. Did Hachiman learn more about that by the end of the series? Yukino’s family situation has barely been addressed.
(Yukino’s anthology came out on 18-3-2020. The first 5 chapters are random side stories/what if stories written by other people. The last chapter however is written by Watari. Hachiman gets invited to the Yukinoshita household to meet Yukino’s father. Depending on whether you consider this to be canon or not, it turns out Yukino’s family has always been fairly supportive and understanding. If that’s the case then that means that there was never anything to really “find out” about Yukino’s family issues in the first place. I’ll come back to this later.)
So, Hachiman said that he doesn’t want any vague answers or superficial relationships. He doesn’t want to get along with someone just for show. He only desires something genuine. Anything else he didn’t need at all. However in the final three volumes, Hachiman spends a lot of time with Hayama and his group. Hachiman goes to the beach with Yumiko and Ebina to take pictures for the fake prom. Hachiman goes to a karaoke bar with Hayama, his group and the other people that helped with the prom. Hachiman and the group go to a sauna. So instead of learning more about the characters, dealing with their pasts etc. Hachiman hangs out with Hayama’s group for a fairly large portion of the final arc.
That can either mean one of two things. Either Hachiman now has a “real” relationship with Hayama, Yumiko, Ebina and Tobe or Hachiman’s character arc and his desire for something genuine have been abandoned.
>Even so, I want us to think, writhe, struggle, and find… something genuine.
Did the characters really think, writhe and struggle in these final three volumes? Yukino has definitely struggled. You could also say the same about Yui. But what about Hachiman? Did Hachiman really struggle all that much in the final arc or has he kind of been acting like a generic harem protagonist for most of it?
There are also moments where Hachiman spends time with Orimoto and Tamanawa, goes to the beach with Yumiko and Ebina, goes to a karaoke bar with Hayama’s group and the people that helped with the fake prom. Hachiman goes shopping with Yui and her mother so that they can make a fruit tart for Komachi’s graduation party. He goes to a batting cage with Sensei. He also ends up going to a sauna with Hayama, his group and others.
Speaking purely from a tonal standpoint, does any of the above feel like it belongs after the cliffhanger of season 2? Or does most of it feel like it’s a bunch of harem fan service?
In his interview, Watari said that since volume 2, the direction of Oregairu had been decided and that it was going to be bitter. Watari also calls himself a “dark” writer. Does any of the above feel like it’s “bitter” or “dark”?
Anyway, the second half of chapter 1 and chapter 2 of volume 12 are solid chapters. Yukino slowly reveals to Hachiman and Yui what her request is and what she wants to do. Yukino wants to prove to her mother that she is capable enough to work at her father’s company. She also says that she wants to do it on her own, to prove her independence and to have Hachiman and Yui just be bystanders and watch her.
Yukino invites Hachiman and Yui over to her apartment, where they bump into a possibly drunk Haruno. Once they’re inside the apartment, Yukino begins to talk with Haruno about their future plans, but it seems more like it’s something that only the two of them know about. Yukino plans on going to live back home with her parents and to discuss her future aspirations. Haruno says that it will be difficult to convince their mother, but Haruno might help out and try to convince her.
The thing that stands out the most is that Yukino wants to talk about “us in the future”. Initially Haruno thinks that Yukino is talking about her relationship with Hachiman and Yui, to which Haruno replies whether she should be present during this conversation. However, Yukino quickly adds that she means that she wants to talk about Haruno, their mom, herself and their family situation.
Haruno isn’t really all that interested in that (or at least not at first) and she makes an attempt at Yui to probably stir up some trouble. However Yukino jumps in front of Yui to protect her friend from Haruno, which once again shows that Yukino is very protective of her friends.
In the second half of chapter 2, Hachiman is walking back to the station while Haruno accompanies him. Haruno waited for him because she wants to talk to him about Yukino.
Haruno tells Hachiman how he has always been a good brother towards Komachi, but Haruno isn’t towards Yukino.
This basically ties into “Haruno toys with the things she loves until she destroys them”.
Haruno talks about how she had to give up on a lot of things in order to become more mature. She says the same thing about Yukino and that Yukino will also need to give up on certain things. Near the end of volume 13 it turned out that Yukino had to give up on Hachiman, however in volume 14 that got undone.
So, why would Yukino need to give up on certain things? It likely has to do with which of the two sisters will become the heir to their father’s company.
In volume 6, after the girls had their performance on stage where they played some songs to stall for time so that Hachiman could find Sagami, Haruno came to Yukino after the performance and said that Yukino did a really good job. Then Haruno left after saying that their mother will be really surprised after hearing about this, which caused Yukino to stiffen up.
Basically, for Haruno (and Yukino) it’s important that Yukino succeeds at big events like this, so Yukino can impress their mother. All of these moments have something to do with Yukino impressing their mother.
In chapter 6 of volume 12, Haruno tells Hachiman not to interfere and that Yukino needs to solve this on her own, so she can impress their mother.
Haruno’s entire life has been planned out by her mother and Yukino has pretty much been neglected.
Yukino sees her family (or at least her sister) as her closest strangers.
What the Yukinoshitas want from Haruno, is for Haruno to take over their father’s company. So basically Haruno has no freedom of her own and Yukino has been given all of the freedom (by her parents basically not caring all that much about her). Haruno hates that Yukino has been given this freedom, while she has none.
A possible explanation as to why Haruno is pushing Yukino into all these big events and positions, is so Yukino can show their mother that Yukino is even more capable than Haruno at heading these types of projects. If Yukino can achieve that, then Yukino can become the heir to the company and Haruno can get the freedom Yukino has.
During their walk, Haruno says how it doesn’t really matter if Yukino manages to convince their mother to change her plans, because ultimately, it’s still the same outcome for Haruno. In both cases, her life is planned out for her. Either she becomes the head of the company or most likely she will be forced into an arranged marriage.
So it’s possible that the reason why Haruno hates that Yukino depends on others (in this case Hachiman), is because if Yukino depends on Hachiman to get things done, Yukino will never be able to prove that she is capable enough on her own to be the head of the Yukinoshita company. Because of that, Haruno will never be able to get the freedom she wants.
However, Yukino’s family dynamic hasn’t really been elaborated on, so it’s also possible that the reason why Haruno pushes Yukino this hard is to prevent Yukino from ending up like Haruno.
Instead what ends up happening in volume 14 is that Yukino manages to impress her mother and Yukino gets some recognition from her mother. After the first prom, Yukino tells her mom that she is interested in her father’s line of work and that she wants to work with him at the company. Yukino’s mother says she will think about it, but if that’s what Yukino wants then Yukino’s mother will support it.
In the second half of volume 14, the fake prom resurfaces because Hachiman made Zaimokuza and the other two update the site two times. Hachiman shows up to a meeting where the three Yukinoshitas are so he can explain the situation. Yukino’s mother asks what the meaning behind this second prom is. She thought it was merely meant to make the other prom look good. Hachiman ends up convincing Yukino’s mother that he can host the second prom and he asks if Yukino can help him, without a budget or any manpower. Yukino accepts and Yukino’s mother goes along with it. Hachiman, Yukino and the others then spend half a chapter working on the second prom and everything works out, without anything going wrong or any setbacks. Then during the second prom, Yukino’s mother shows up again and says that she acknowledges Yukino’s abilities.
That’s all the convincing it took to get Yukino’s mother to change her mind, two short conversations that last about 5 minutes. In volume 12 Haruno said that it wouldn’t be easy to change their mother’s mind, but turns out it wasn’t really all that difficult.
Near the end of the volume Yukino’s mother invites Hachiman over to their house. That wraps up the Yukinoshita family storyline. (However there’s another chapter in Yukino’s anthology.)
Which raises the question, if all it took was for Yukino to successfully organize a big event like this and to tell her mother what her future plans are, then why wasn’t this done around volume 6 after the festival arc?
At least this somewhat got wrapped up, however far too easily. In the previous 11 novels Yukino’s mother has been described to be way more controlling and manipulative. Yukino would freeze the second her mother would show up or be brought up, but apparently that was an exaggeration.
Anyway, after chapter 2 is where volume 12 loses its focus.
In chapter 3, Hachiman sits in a café with Saki and her little sister, which doesn’t really lead to anything. It’s probably just to remind people that Saki is still a character in this series or fan service for the fans of Saki.
Komachi shows up after finishing her entrance exams and they go home. You get a brief moment where Komachi thanks Hachiman for all of his help and Hachiman starts to cry. This would have probably been more effective if the entire chapter was spent on Hachiman and Komachi’s relationship, but people like Komachi and the sibling relationship between Hachiman and Komachi, so people will probably like this scene.
In chapter 4, Hachiman arrives at his high school where he encounters Totsuka. Totsuka asks Hachiman if they plan on recruiting new members for the Service Club. Hachiman says how he doesn’t know how the club was formed and that he was merely forced to join. Hachiman says that it’s up to Yukino and Sensei to decide what happens to the club and that he has no say in that.
In the manga however, Hachiman doesn’t have this talk with Totsuka, but instead he ends up thinking about this stuff after overhearing a group of students talking.
Hachiman comes to the realization that neither him nor Yui have ever touched the key to the Service Club. Hachiman notices how for some “reason” the key seems to be very important to Yukino.
In a later chapter, Hachiman realizes how Zaimokuza is the only person Hachiman knew before joining the club.
Which raises the question, why would Watari make Hachiman think about the origin of the club, the importance of the Service Club key as well as how Zaimokuza is the only person he knew before joining the club this late into the series, when eventually it never gets addressed or explained in volume 14?
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Axial3D and Fast Radius to supply 3D surgical models in U.S. with DICOM-to-print service
Anas Essop June 08th 2020 - 11:42am 0 0
Fast Radius, a Chicago-based digital manufacturing service provider, and Axial3D, a UK-based medical technology firm, have announced a new ‘DICOM-to-print’ service for surgeons and hospitals across North America.
The partnership between the two firms is intended to provide clinicians across the United States, Canada, and Mexico access to improved surgical planning with micro-millimeter accurate, patient-specific 3D printed anatomical models. Derived from the patient’s own 2D scans, these models are reportedly shipped to surgical teams in as little as 48 hours.
Lou Rassey, CEO at Fast Radius, comments “Our mission at Fast Radius is to help companies make new things possible that advance the human condition. Partnering with Axial3D to make these surgical models will have a great impact on patient care. It’s work we’re proud to do.”
Axial3D 3D printed model. Photo via Axial3D.
Increasing adoption of 3D printing in healthcare
Axial3D is a medical manufacturing service provider headquartered in Northern Ireland. The firm was founded in 2014 to help healthcare providers adopt 3D printing. Having partnered with the likes of Formlabs and value added reseller GoPrint3D, Axial3D’s activities include supplying hospitals with the equipment needed to set up managed, point-of-care 3D printing labs. The company also has on-demand manufacturing services for medical professionals.
Axial3D’s specific area of expertise is centered on the production of anatomical models for use in pre-surgical planning, medical training and patient communications.
In 2019, Axial3D closed a $3 million funding round to extend its 3D printing software and services in healthcare across the U.S. It also supplied an on-site 3D printing lab to Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the UK.
Furthermore, earlier in 2020 the company partnered with Durban-based service provider MedTech3D to ensure affordable access to high-quality 3D printed models in South African hospitals.
An anatomical model of a spine 3D printed by axial3D. Photo via axial3D
Advantages of 3D printed models
The advantages of 3D printing means that clinicians can gain access to a new standard of insight into the patient’s anatomical detail, a step above what is currently possible when simply relying on 2D imaging.
3D printed models can be held in the surgeon’s hands and fully assessed – allowing them to tangibly define and even practice a surgical plan before they set foot in the operating room, potentially improving surgical performance and patient care. As such, this helps to increase the confidence of clinicians when creating precision surgical plans. Indeed, anatomical models are a key application for 3D printing in the medical sector, with its adoption in this regard having increased significantly over the years.
DICOM, short for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine, is the international standard for the communication and management of medical imaging information and related data. The new DICOM-to-print service from Axial3D and Fast Radius aims to provide 3D printed models at a critical time for hospitals across the United States, as they look to restart surgical services in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, where there remains a backlog of surgical procedures to tackle.
Roger Johnston, CEO at Axial3D, states “The partnership between Fast Radius and Axial3D comes at a critical time for healthcare institutions. We are now able to support surgeons and hospitals in the US minimize the impact of COVID 19 as they endeavor to return elective surgery capacity.”
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Anas Essop
Anas Essop is an English and Film graduate, who loves writing about the advancement of technology.
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CSD cancels extracurricular activities, students cope
Alexis Siegler|March 23, 2020
Backlash against the district’s reopening plans culminated in a letter to the board.
Alongside the cancellation of City Schools of Decatur (CSD) on March 12 stemming from concerns regarding COVID-19, all student extracurricular activities, including sports, were cancelled.
Early on Thursday, CSD canceled the seasons of all JV, Renfroe and freshmen teams. Originally, CSD stated, varsity games would be limited to those at the region or state level. Their stance then updated in an email, sent March 12, cancelling school indefinitely. In this, they announced the official cancellation of all extracurricular activities.
In the advisement period on Thursday, around 10:30, an announcement was made declaring that 42nd Street, the drama production, was cancelled. Bailey Carr and Carrie Crespino, both sophomores, were devastated, along with their fellow cast and crew members.
“On behalf of the cast and crew, we are absolutely heartbroken,” Carr said. “We put months of effort and passion into putting on a great show, only for it to be canceled the day before we were supposed to open.”
Carr especially grieves for Decatur seniors, who may not have a chance to perform their last show with an audience present.
“This whole situation has left me and many others feeling very disoriented. It was hard to wrap my head around how quickly everything came to a grinding halt,” Carr said. “I was ready to spend eight more shows with the people I love, but I had to say goodbye much sooner than I anticipated.”
Similar to many students, Carr and Crespino have hopes that if school resumes, so will their activities.
“I’m hoping that once (if) school is back in session we will reschedule the show so we can actually show off our hard work in front of an audience,” Crespino said.
Emily Pollack, a member of the girls lacrosse team and the Mock Trial team, was “extremely disappointed” that both her beloved activities were placed on hold. As with most spring sports, the lacrosse season was just beginning and she was excited to participate in team bonding and develop as a team.
As a senior, Pollack fears COVID-19 will mean the end of her high school career in both activities.
Lauryn Williams, also a member of the Mock Trial team, was disappointed as well. Her disappointment stems from the immense amount of effort and time the team dedicated to the season in order to qualify for the Georgia state competition, along with seven other teams. Williams “would’ve just hoped for one last competition, [but] believes that the actions at DHS are justified as this virus has become a global pandemic.”
Similar to Pollack, junior baseball player Alden Wright is “especially saddened for [the baseball team’s] senior class” due to the amount of effort they had placed into the season. “To have it cut short is excruciating. Knowing that I may never step on the field with them again hurts,” he said.
Wright, Williams, Pollack, Carr and Crespino all believe CSD is justified in their decision considering the danger the virus poses to the population, especially the elderly.
Despite this, Wright regards the media and government as sensationalizing the severity of the virus. He perceives COVID-19 as analogous to the flu, and the publics’ reactions as being overblown, despite the Center for Disease Control and World Health Organizations statements’ to the contrary.
Though Wright agrees school should remain online, he believes students “should be allowed to sign waivers to be able to participate in extracurricular activities.” He continues to go to the gym and play baseball, a “risk [he] is willing to take.”
Comparable to Wright, Freshman JV lacrosse player Tallulah Wall feels the effects of COVID-19 aren’t personal to her.
“I’m well aware it’s a problem and many people have died and will die,” Wall said. “It’s something that doesn’t feel real right now and even if I were to get there’s like a 0.01% chance I would die.”
Crespino, on the other hand, acts, not out of fear for herself, but of that for loved ones.
“I try to only hang out with one or two friends at a time, and try not to touch any surfaces that are in public spaces,” Crespino said. “This isn’t about me. Chances are, I’ll get the disease and be fine. But being exposed to so many people could really hurt someone I love, and I’m not willing to sacrifice them.”
Similarly, Carr believes, with self-quarantining and social distancing, humans can overcome COVID-19.
“While panic-shopping for toilet paper is pretty excessive, we have to keep in mind that this is a pandemic,” Carr said. “Self-quarantining and social isolation are effective ways to prevent the spread of the disease and make sure the number of cases doesn’t surpass our healthcare system’s capacity.”
As an extrovert, Carr finds social isolation to be unpleasant and difficult to maintain.
“Luckily, I have my parents to keep me in check,” she said. “They’re allowing me to spend time with no more than four people so long as I stay six feet away from them, avoid sharing food or drinks, and wash my hands often.”
Considering students have varying levels of needs, Carr supposes that the cancellation affects some students disproportionately. She then believes that DHS should work to “meet the needs of students who rely on going to school every day, whether for food, shelter, or emotional support from the student center.”
All students who reached out are limiting social interactions and observing social distancing to some extent.
Since the initial email by CSD which cancelled school and extracurricular activities indefinitely, there has been no further comment on resuming extracurriculars if and when CSD schools reopen.
* Note: all extracurriculars were not discussed within this article. The students who reached out can’t testify to all extracurriculars, only theirs.
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Missed Miscarriage How Common
According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), miscarriages are the most common type of pregnancy loss. Never miss an update. If you experience bleeding, pain and mild discomfort in the stomach, it may be a sign of miscarriage. In miscarriages in the first trimester, approximately two thirds have significant chromosomal anomalies, with about half of these being Down's Syndrome. Missed miscarriage In this situation what happens is that the embryo fails to develop fully and, instead of being passed out of the womb in a miscarriage situation, it is retained inside. I had absolutely no symptoms at all. Is a missed miscarriage really a miscarriage?. How common are missed miscarriages after seeing a heartbeat? After a scan at 8 weeks showing a healthy foetal heartbeat, your chances of miscarriage, silent or otherwise, drops to 2%. Electoral college explained How Biden faces an uphill battle in the US election. A missed miscarriage, sometimes termed a missed abortion 3, is a situation when there is a non-viable fetus within the uterus, without symptoms of a miscarriage. Vitamin B supplementation may cause yellowing of urine, but this does not pose any health risk. The diagnosis of a missed miscarriage can catch you off guard because most women have no warning Common Concerns. It’s possible you may think you’re pregnant based on symptoms like a missed period (or a positive pregnancy test), but these chemical pregnancies, which account for up to 75 percent of all miscarriages, are lost so early after implantation (usually just two weeks. Wear a fabric mask unless you're in a particular risk group. How common is miscarriage? What causes miscarriage? The most common cause of bleeding after the time of the missed period is miscarriage. A miscarriage can be devastating. I have had two missed miscarriages. How common is miscarriage? What causes miscarriage? Missed abortion: the fetus has not developed, so there is no viable pregnancy, but there is placental Miscarriage is such a common occurrence that typically, unless known risk factors are present, no special testing is performed. Very early miscarriage, which is common – guessed at as up to 50% of all miscarriages – is a pregnancy that ends soon after implantation, sometimes only a few days later. Nearly a month ago, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend had shared heartbreaking news to their fans that the couple had to say goodbye to their third child who. A missed miscarriage is often known as a silent miscarriage because women generally do not have common miscarriage symptoms, such as vaginal bleeding, heavy cramping, or expulsion of fetal tissue. BBC World News TV. It's common for pregnancy symptoms to fade towards the end of the first trimester, but for many women they may fade earlier, or come and go. The relationship you have with your spouse, family, friends and even yourself is stretched. How common are early miscarriages? 'There is a concept of the pregnancy loss iceberg which suggests many miscarriages are missed. How a missed miscarriage is treated. The Doctor or sexual health team will perform a swab test by taking samples of fluid from your vagina. This is common in miscarriages that occur before 12 weeks of pregnancy. Miscarriage and Statistics UK. Missed miscarriage at 12 weeks. u/s today showed growth at 6w and no heartbeat, I'm supposed to be 8w4d. In many cases, doctors don't know what caused the miscarriage. How does the system work?. In that case, allowing it to progress naturally may be preferable to a D&C. Suspect a miscarriage in women who are pregnant, or with symptoms of pregnancy (amenorrhoea, missed period, breast tenderness), presenting with vaginal bleeding in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. Some studies have suggested that as many as half of all first pregnancies end in miscarriage, and this often happens in the first few weeks of pregnancy. Anti-D immunoglobulin is no longer recommended for Rh D negative women after a threatened miscarriage less than 12 weeks gestation. If your dog has experienced a miscarriage, the most common thing you may notice is abnormal vaginal bleeding; in some cases an expelled fetus may be found. 'I cannot express how little I care that you hate the photos' — Chrissy Teigen speaks out for first time since miscarriage. Eukaryotes as well as protists, a miscellany group made up of eukaryote-like plant, animal and fungi missing one or more characteristics to be defined as purely eukaryotic, differ greatly from prokaryotes in structure. In many cases the cause of RPL is unknown. A lost chance. Now that we've gone over what a miscarriage is and what can cause them, let's go over some common misconceptions: Myth 1: I must have done something, like exercising too much or drinking coffee, to cause the miscarriage. I don't think missed miscarriages are common enough to worry about, which of course is not going to help you not worry. Miscarriages most often occur in the early weeks of pregnancy. According to a study [1], the LH peak value could be as low as 20 IU/L, or as high as 75 IU/L, for health women. Not been sick once, I didn't realise I was even pregnant until 8 weeks. VAERS is the data used in all vaccine injuries, including pregnant women. 2 The symptoms are often similar to the spontaneous miscarriage with bleeding and pain. dozens of irish times readers got in touch after we asked you to share your stories. An ultrasound scan of a normal pregnancy at six-and-a-half weeks (meaning that it was done two-and-a-half weeks after the woman's missed period. Nearly a month ago, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend had shared heartbreaking news to their fans that the couple had to say goodbye to their third child who. Miscarriage is common—about 10 to 25 percent of recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage, making it the most common form of pregnancy loss, according to the American Congress of Obstetricians. Mistakes are a common occurrence every day for many people. Never miss an update. Common causes of Miscarriage symptom from a list of 285 total causes of symptom Miscarriage. QUICK TAKE Prophylactic Antibiotics before Miscarriage Surgery 02:11. Part 3: Why do people lose their things? It took me quite a few minutes to notice that something was missing — my phone of all things. hCG testing return to normal within 2-4 w after a completed miscarriage After E, M or S TT: many clinicians measure a serum hCG level weekly until it is undetectable. About half the women in the U. Miscarriage, or the death of a child in utero, is one of the worst fears of an expectant mother, and unfortunately a common occurrence. will have at least one miscarriage at some point during their reproductive lives. Another 1 to 5 percent of women miscarry early in the second trimester, between weeks. When misoprostol is used to end a pregnancy Misoprostol can be used, usually with another medicine called mifepristone, to end a pregnancy in the first 3 months. Director: KidsInTheHouse. The problem is that employees develop common loyalties that are far stronger that the need to share information. Causes of Miscarriage. Miscarriage, also known in medical terms as a spontaneous abortion and pregnancy loss, is the natural death of an embryo or fetus before it is able to survive independently. Trump won the presidency in 2016 despite Clinton receiving almost 3m more votes, all because of the electoral college. Just because a miscarriage occurs Second Trimester Miscarriage What Is a Chemical Pregnancy? How Often Does Miscarriage. A Miscarriage Story | Missed Miscarriage, Medical Management, Incomplete Miscarriage, and ERPC. A miscarriage is the natural death of a baby still in its mother's womb. Now the good news. A miscarriage is the loss of a baby before 24 weeks of pregnancy (Crafter and Brewster 2014, NHS Choices 2013, NICE 2013). In the case of a planned abortion, bleeding is the most common symptom following the procedure. How Common is a Missed Miscarriage? The Toddle. So many defective fire detectors point to the fact But if we know exactly how to deal with the PSC deficiencies, we can save a lot of time and possible delays in close out of the deficiencies. You may not have had any of the usual signs of miscarriage, such as pain or bleeding. The objective of this study was to determine whether there are differences in the patterns of normalization of mental health scores after these two pregnancy termination events. First, at 9 weeks, there was a missed miscarriage, which means the baby is no longer viable but your body doesn’t realize it. two miscarriages at aged 38 in 4 months hi, i have had 2 miscarriages one in october last year at 6 weeks which was natrual and complete and one in february which was a missed miscarriage. 13 For women with an incomplete miscarriage, use a single dose of 600 micrograms of misoprostol. Misdiagnosed miscarriage at 6 weeks. The most common symptoms of miscarriage are bleeding and cramping. What Happens During a Miscarriage? Unfortunately, miscarriage is quite common. Implantation bleeding in early pregnancy will not always be a sign of miscarriage regardless of whether the blood flow is red in color or contains a few clots. And since older women often attempt IVF, miscarriages can sadly let them down. severe cramping. Anyone suggesting or promoting violence in the comments section will be immediately. Missed miscarriage often goes unnoticed because of a lack of symptoms—this type of miscarriage doesn’t usually look like anything in terms of symptoms or bleeding that you could observe. I was laboring over the details and in turn, caused my manager to be stressed when I almost missed the deadline on my deliverables. (hitch-hike). Diagnosing miscarriage. It was quite devastating and although my Dr. What is a missed miscarriage? where the fetus has already died but the products of conceptions are still in the utuero for up to several weeks. Perhaps the embryo had the wrong number of chromosomes. In the first, my body would seem pregnant without a growing embryo. This can even extend to questions of safety. Miscarriage is unfortunately a common occurrence, complicating approximately 25 percent of pregnancies. And it's playing in my mind what if this time it's the same? I'm finding it hard to get emotionally attached to the idea of me being pregnant even Tho it was planned. Miscarriages are a common occurrence. Some 10 to 15 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriage in the first trimester or before week 12 of pregnancy. A missed miscarriage, sometimes termed a missed abortion 3, is a situation when there is a non-viable fetus within the uterus, without symptoms of a miscarriage. A miscarriage is the early loss of a pregnancy before the 20th week of pregnancy. Missed miscarriage In this situation what happens is that the embryo fails to develop fully and, instead of being passed out of the womb in a miscarriage situation, it is retained inside. “Miscarriage is the most common complication in pregnancy,” said Dr. With a missed miscarriage, a woman may choose to wait a few days to see if the tissue naturally passes on its own. On the financial side, a common risk reduction strategy is to require two signatures for checks over a certain amount. After three or more losses, a thorough evaluation is recommended by American Society of Reproductive Medicine. Miss Penelope Edwards is the new nursery school teacher. Possible Cause of Secondary Amenorrhea Benign Causes The most common cause is pregnancy. Confirmation of the miscarriage occurs when an ultrasound shows no fetal heartbeat. Missed miscarriage: Occurs when embryonic death occurs without any expulsion of the embryo itself. B) In all cases when a woman misses her period, she must be considered pregnant. Miscarriage and induced abortion are life events that can potentially cause mental distress. Moved Permanently. This can be sign of miscarriage at 9 weeks. The most common sign of miscarriage is the bleeding (whether minimal spotting or heavy bleeding) which might be associated with lower abdominal Sometimes sudden cessation of the morning sickness might be a clue to miscarriage. Missed miscarriage: This is when a baby dies but stays inside the uterus. Staff at the GCRM were incredibly supportive and genuinely devastated for me (as they were genuinely over the moon when I got my positive). The two conditions are felt to represent different aspects of the same clinical process. "I suffered a missed miscarriage just before my wedding in 2016. QUICK TAKE Prophylactic Antibiotics before Miscarriage Surgery 02:11. In this article, we shall look at the risk factors, clinical features and management of miscarriage. Most of these miscarriages happen at random; that is, they are not part of a larger pattern of fertility problems. Answers to common miscarriage questions. Miscarriage. Bleeding is typically scanty, varying from a brownish discharge to bright red bleeding, and may recur over several days. Vitamin B supplementation may cause yellowing of urine, but this does not pose any health risk. Miscarriage is a common thing and about 40-50% of pregnancies result in a miscarriage. Put the missing word from the given below. This can be sign of miscarriage at 9 weeks. The introduction explains that miscarriage is a common phenomenon and a natural part of healthy women’s childbearing: approximately 20 percent of confirmed pregnancies. Missed miscarriage/missed abortion. I’m very lucky to have gone on and had two amazing daughters since then, but the sadness and the loss still haunts me. " It's sometimes safe to call women in their 20s "Miss," but always try. Miscarriage risk rises dramatically after about age 37 for women, and age 40 for men. Learn more about your risk of miscarriage by week. This article is more than 7 years old. The bleeding can vary from light to heavy, perhaps with blood clots, and may come and go for a few days (NICE 2018). They are usually conducted with healthy volunteers, and the goal is to determine the drug's most frequent and serious adverse events and, often, how the drug is broken down and excreted by the body. Missed Miscarriage: A Missing Conversation. In this video I talk about what happened during this difficult time and the emotions surrounding it. In women, giving birth after 35 years, pathology is also more common than in young women. The above cited papers report the percentage of women with a confirmed viable pregnancy at a certain gestation who experience fetal death before 20 weeks. "Discovering that a genetic anomaly is the most common cause of miscarriage makes patients feel less guilty and have much. Missed Miscarriage. Ask others about their experience of miscarriage and find TTC buddies if you're trying to get pregnant with your rainbow baby. If you had your menses but still feel pregnant, it would be wise to get a repeat test a couple of days after the menses to be sure that you are not pregnant and the perceived 'menses' was not an implantation bleeding. Hi Kimberly Missed miscarriage is not common at all. "How little I care that it's something you wouldn't have done. If you have had one miscarriage, the overwhelming odds are that it will not happen again. In medical terminology, it is also called a spontaneous abortion. Learn how to answer the common 'what are your strengths and weaknesses?' interview question by highlighting your skills and habits and read example answers. A miscarriage can be a heartbreaking experience for an expectant mother. Silent, because your body often still thinks it is pregnant and continues to pump out hormones. RELATED: How Facebook is helping me cope with my miscarriage. Chemical pregnancies may account for 50-75% of all miscarriages. How IT works check your english vocabulary for med Symptoms and common illnesses 2 check your english. In a missed abortion, the pregnancy will not progress because, although the woman retains embryonic and/or placental tissue in her uterus, the embryo either never formed or died of natural causes. Missed miscarriage. Vitamin B supplementation may cause yellowing of urine, but this does not pose any health risk. Most of these miscarriages happen at random; that is, they are not part of a larger pattern of fertility problems. When you add your email, you will be added to Rachel's email list where you'll receive her latest blogs, monthly newsletter, promotions, and giveaways. A scan or a negative pregnancy test will confirm this. Healthresearchfunding. A new study by researchers at UC Santa Cruz shows how a genetic mutation throws off the timing of the biological clock, causing a common sleep syndrome called delayed sleep phase disorder. Miscarriage is very common and usually occurs in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. But most researchers have not been able to find an association between the length of gestation and intensity of grief, anxiety or depression ( Research in Nursing & Health ). Among women who know they. Recurrent miscarriages on the other hand are when someone has had two, three or more miscarriages in a row. Missed miscarriage (also known as a delayed or a silent miscarriage) can come as a big shock as there are none of the usual signs of miscarriage, such If there is still a heartbeat, then a second scan would be arranged in 10-14 days' time to check your pregnancy. Horsager-Boehrer explains some of the most typical reasons for pregnancy loss. I have had 2 miscarriages and trying to get information on the how and why of miscarriage is like pulling teeth. Not all women realize that they are miscarrying and others may not seek medical care when it occurs. Often, the only signs of a missed miscarriage are the loss of all pregnancy symptoms, and less commonly, a brownish discharge. How common is recurrent miscarriage? Recurrent miscarriage is not common. Asafetida (Ferula fetida) Asafetida is the common solution to most women's problems. Transabdominal ultrasound involves scanning through your lower abdomen. In fact, it has been estimated that up to half of all pregnancies end in an early miscarriage that occurs before the first period would have been missed, when most women do not. (800 micrograms can be used as an alternative to allow alignment of treatment protocols for both missed and incomplete miscarriage). Miscarriage - Learn about the causes, symptoms, diagnosis & treatment from the MSD Manuals Miscarriages are more common in high-risk pregnancies, particularly when women are not Whether this approach is safe depends on how much tissue is left, how the uterus appears on an ultrasound of. Many women will not get a positive pregnancy test result on the day they think is just after their missed menstrual period, even if they are pregnant, because they are testing too early. The unmodified word abortion. Unless you have a huge amount of money saved up or you've mastered how to travel on a budget, it can I missed a flight transfer in Panama and ended up with a free stay in a 5-Star Hilton Hotel. I’m very lucky to have gone on and had two amazing daughters since then, but the sadness and the loss still haunts me. Missed miscarriage. Miscarriages are much more common than most people realise. Not common practice after surgical evacuation. When a woman is told she has had a “missed miscarriage,” she may choose to let the fetal tissue leave her body on its own or to undergo dilation and curettage, a procedure we know as a “D&C. Approximately 20% of pregnancies (one in five) end in miscarriage. Missed miscarriages are common, but the good news is, a missed miscarriage is not likely to happen twice. Learn the definition of Mr. Your age, your partner’s age, and your number of prior miscarriages all affect your overall risk of miscarriage. According to the March of Dimes, as many as 50% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage – most often before a woman misses a menstrual period or even knows that she is pregnant. Many times miscarriage might not have any symptom. is a title used before a surname or full name of a female whether she is married or not. When deliberate steps are taken to end a pregnancy, it is called an induced abortion , or less frequently "induced miscarriage". Miscarriage is a term describing cases where a pregnancy terminates on its own, typically within the first 20 weeks of a normal gestational period. The ultrasound would show a pregnancy which is smaller. Chrissy Teigen isn't holding back. Dear mom who just had a miscarriage, You may be living in that state of limbo between heaven and hell, wondering why it seems like you are stuck feeling like you really don't know how to feel. Miscarriage is the most common adverse outcome of pregnancy. A missed miscarriage (also known as a “silent miscarriage” or a “missed abortion”) occurs when a fetus dies in utero but the woman’s body does not expel the tissue, often because the. If your mods folder is a mess, you probably have the same mod installed. Although uncomfortable and frustrating, most often the backache is simply a result of your ligaments loosening to allow your body to accommodate your growing baby. "Discovering that a genetic anomaly is the most common cause of miscarriage makes patients feel less guilty and have much. Missed pregnancy loss: It is also known. A missed miscarriage is when the fetus has died or has not developed, but the body does not discharge the fetus or tissues from the pregnancy. A miscarriage is something that happens when a pregnancy stops growing. The Doctor or sexual health team will perform a swab test by taking samples of fluid from your vagina. A first trimester miscarriage with no confirmation of a fetal heartbeat does no increase the risk for the next pregnancy. How to refer to men and boys. Late Miscarriage What is a late miscarriage? Doctors describe a late miscarriage as one that happens after 12 weeks and before 24 weeks of pregnancy. I have also just had a missed miscarriage at 13weeks. COVID-19 most commonly spreads during close contact. Miscarriage rates by week vary between women. 5 More locations; Count how many people have found specific location. However, if you do miscarry the second time, then your risk is about 1 in 3 for the next pregnancy. Asafetida (Ferula fetida) Asafetida is the common solution to most women's problems. Many times the woman may not have symptoms, and this may be found on an ultrasound. But in real life, some people infect many others and others don't spread the disease at all. In the days that followed, my wife’s grief plateaued while I watched for opportunities to help her feel better. In fact, the latter is the norm, Lloyd-Smith says: "The consistent pattern is that the most common number is zero. Enumerate hygiene factors? Complete the following sentences using the text information. We'll email you when new articles are published on this topic. There are 132 Miscarriage Stories stories. severe belly pain. I had a missed miscarriage:(my baby stopped growing at 9 weeks. Miscarriage is the most common complication of pregnancy. Horsager-Boehrer explains some of the most typical reasons for pregnancy loss. In worst cases near miss can develop into mid-air collision. We use the term "pregnancy loss" throughout this information. When a woman is told she has had a “missed miscarriage,” she may choose to let the fetal tissue leave her body on its own or to undergo dilation and curettage, a procedure we know as a “D&C. After the miscarriage there is a period of bleeding and cramping, which resolves without treatment. Apple earnings will be missing the usual star attraction. Among women who know they're pregnant, it's estimated about 1 in 8 pregnancies will end in miscarriage. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), about 15 to 20 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriage. Are you thinking of having a natural miscarriage without medical intervention? Here we give you an idea of all the options you available and help you select the best way to have a safe, self-induced miscarriage. " Dealing with this can be very difficult, so it is important to understand your options and what to expect. (1) Useful Herbs in the Treatment of Miscarriage 1. Index Share. How to Avoid GRAMMAR ERRORS. What he got back a month later, in February 1962, was a classic bureaucratic brushoff. BBC World News TV. At aged 42, it’s one in two. Between 9 and 11 weeks i had a ridiculous amount of back pain, i developed a rash on my stomach, i stopped gaining weight and my uterus was slowly moving down. How to refer to men and boys. He said he is going to refer me to an RE for testing, once a missed miscarriage is diagnosed. Typically, nearly half of all pregnant women who have successfully given birth noticed some bleeding at one time or the other while being pregnant. I understand, from personal experience, how hard it can be to take that ride. too big and they won’t have anything in common. So many defective fire detectors point to the fact But if we know exactly how to deal with the PSC deficiencies, we can save a lot of time and possible delays in close out of the deficiencies. It is estimated that as many as 26% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage and u …. Recurrent miscarriage is seen less frequently. It's common for pregnancy symptoms to fade towards the end of the first trimester, but for many women they may fade earlier, or come and go. How to prevent a miscarriage? What are the common causes of miscarriages? Miscarriages generally take place in the first two trimesters. It was early. How common is miscarriage? What causes miscarriage? The most common cause of bleeding after the time of the missed period is miscarriage. Between 10-20% of all known pregnancies end in miscarriage ( source ). The ability of TCM to prevent miscarriage is portrayed within this case study. Types of Miscarriage. This is especially important if there is a history of missed miscarriages. If you have had one miscarriage, the overwhelming odds are that it will not happen again. It is more common in older women, and the risk gets higher the older. When milk comes in, the busts will get filled anytime about two to 5 days following the miscarriage. severe belly pain. Miscarriage definition is - corrupt or incompetent management; especially : a failure in the administration of justice. Therefore we use an arbitrary timeline to better understand these early pregnancy symptoms as follows: Symptoms occurring between conception and the missed period. Missed miscarriage - These are fetuses that are no longer viable but usually did not present with the signs and symptoms of miscarriage. Perhaps the embryo had the wrong number of chromosomes. The following are tips you can follow without needing a doctor’s visit or a prescription. The world goes on around you and you move around in it whilst this strange thing happens to your body. Smoking cigarettes during pregnancy can cause miscarriages. The discourse markers in this extract have a number of uses:so marks the beginning of a new part of the conversation. According to Babycenter. Generally, a blighted ovum is considered a one-time event and fluke of nature. Though the chances of miscarriage after seeing heartbeat are low, several factors can play a role in a woman's likelihood of suffering a miscarriage. A significant percentage of our pregnancies stop growing sometime between the missed period and the end of the first trimester, most often between 4 and 8 weeks of pregnancy (counting from the. Complete miscarriage: All pregnancy tissue leaves the body. "I cannot express how little I care that you hate the photos," she wrote. Stillbirth According to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development , the term miscarriage technically refers to any pregnancy ending on its own before 20 weeks. Misdiagnosed miscarriage at 6 weeks. Use the links in the categories list for stories about other subjects. In some cases, a medical professional is able to pinpoint the specific. While pregnancy hormones might last in the blood for a. The objective of this study was to determine whether there are differences in the patterns of normalization of mental health scores after these two pregnancy termination events. Courtney Stodden’s Miscarriage Is A Sad Reminder Of How Common Miscarriage Is, Even In Young Adults The actress, 21, shared that she recently suffered a miscarriage. Index Share. Missed Miscarriage. It is the most common type of pregnancy loss. Understanding the cause(s) triggering the miscarriage in a dog is crucial in order to avoid a repeat miscarriage at the female dog’s next pregnancy. A miscarriage can take hours, days or even weeks to unfold. It happens when a fertilized egg implants in the uterus but the resulting embryo either stops developing very early or doesn’t form at all. On average, miscarriages occur within the first 13 weeks of pregnancy, but they can occur up to the 20 th week. Causes Most miscarriages that occur during the first 10 to 11 weeks of pregnancy are thought to occur because of a genetic disorder. Miscarriages are more common in older women than younger women, largely because chromosomal abnormalities are more common with increasing age. This is a less common cause of miscarriage. According to the American Pregnancy Association, as many as one quarter of all recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage. By using more lenient measurement guidelines, doctors could reduce or hopefully eliminate the possibility of ending pregnancies that are in fact healthy. Common causes of miscarriage, explained. Not all women realize that they are miscarrying and others may not seek medical care when it occurs. I was laboring over the details and in turn, caused my manager to be stressed when I almost missed the deadline on my deliverables. description}}. I had pregnancy symptoms for another week or two following the D&C. Age is also a common risk factor. A missed miscarriage around 16 weeks. A missed miscarriage or silent miscarriage is something all women should be aware of. Getting green papaya is one of the common methods on how to induce miscarriage in women. In other situations, women can have a "nonviable pregnancy," says Gaither. I have had 2 miscarriages and trying to get information on the how and why of miscarriage is like pulling teeth. How did your previous pregnancy proceed? Did you feel well throughout the whole pregnancy? Patient: My previous pregnancy was uneventful. On 5th March 2020, I went in for a check up and was told OB couldn’t see any heartbeat- 9weeks. The bleeding may be light or heavy, constant or off and on. Missed miscarriage is heartbreaking and often confusing. It’s possible you may think you’re pregnant based on symptoms like a missed period (or a positive pregnancy test), but these chemical pregnancies, which account for up to 75 percent of all miscarriages, are lost so early after implantation (usually just two weeks. Age is also a common risk factor. She discovers she spent almost idiotic slang Viagra Sale Ireland than otherrealms. January 2013- I hemorrhaged and suffered a missed miscarriage followed by a surgical procedure called D&C. Since this is the most straightforward category without means of offending Today, it's more common to refer to a woman as "Ms. Enumerate hygiene factors? Complete the following sentences using the text information. Men's world 100m king Coleman banned for two years over missed tests. Read More m five weeks and 3 days pregnant and I started bleeding today it has been bright red and heavy at times with sine cramping and at other times its been light and pink in color!. Much of what has been written about the role of friction ridge (“fingerprint”) evidence and miscarriages of justice has focused, understandably, on erroneous identifications, cases in which a crime scene print is erroneously attributed to a suspect (or, more rarely, a victim). Age of Mother- Age is the largest contributor to the likelihood that a woman will suffer a miscarriage. Missed miscarriage Many miscarriages are diagnosed during a routine scan in the course of a pregnancy apparently progressing normally, due to detecting the absence of a fetal heartbeat. Learn about causes, types, symptoms After a miscarriage, you might experience symptoms such as spotting and abdominal discomfort. Diagnosing miscarriage. Research and Clinical TrialsSee how Mayo Clinic research and clinical trials advance the science of Miscarriage is a relatively common experience — but that doesn't make it any easier. In fact, the latter is the norm, Lloyd-Smith says: "The consistent pattern is that the most common number is zero. It is possible to experience a miscarriage without even Miscarriage is more common than many women understand. Miscarriage is more common than we think, and for some people it can be a very traumatic experience. These retained products can be scraped out by D & C. Common pitfalls to avoid when taking a pregnancy test Taking a pregnancy test too early. In some cases, a medical professional is able to pinpoint the specific. But if there is no bleeding (as in a missed miscarriage), misoprostol or a D&C might be better alternatives. Background —The UK guidelines for the use of anti-D immunoglobulin for rhesus prophylaxis have been revised. Read about symptoms and how to cope if you've suffered a miscarriage. Like some of you, I am pg with my 1st and have had little or no symptoms, just some tiredness a few times and slightly sore boobs now and again. The most common risk factors identified among women who have experienced early pregnancy loss are advanced maternal age and a prior early pregnancy loss 7 8. About 10 to 20 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriage. They are classified according to clinical and ultrasound features (see Appendix 1). "It just all happened. 'I cannot express how little I care that you hate the photos' — Chrissy Teigen speaks out for first time since miscarriage. Are you thinking of having a natural miscarriage without medical intervention? Here we give you an idea of all the options you available and help you select the best way to have a safe, self-induced miscarriage. Distress over not having enough is all-too-common — even among the wealthy. Learn more about its causes, how to cope with loss and hear from miscarriage expert Dr Jess Farren. Missed miscarriage (also known as a delayed or a silent miscarriage) can come as a big shock as there are none of the usual signs of miscarriage, such If there is still a heartbeat, then a second scan would be arranged in 10-14 days' time to check your pregnancy. In most cases your pregnancy will continue as normal without harming the baby at all. Among women who know they're pregnant, it's estimated about 1 in 8 pregnancies will end in miscarriage. See full list on drugs. We here at the Daily Stormer are opposed to violence. Common pitfalls to avoid when taking a pregnancy test Taking a pregnancy test too early. Sporadic miscarriages are considered to primarily represent failure of abnormal embryos to progress to viability. Miscarriages are most common during the first trimester of pregnancy, which is the first 12 weeks. Feelings of grief and loss are normal after losing a pregnancy. They are usually conducted with healthy volunteers, and the goal is to determine the drug's most frequent and serious adverse events and, often, how the drug is broken down and excreted by the body. Twenty-two percent said previous use of oral contraception was a common cause, and nearly 23 The study shows that women and couples who experience miscarriage may pay a high emotional price because there is a lack of knowledge about how common miscarriage is and its causes. Most instances of implantation bleeding will last for few minutes to few days. VAERS is the data used in all vaccine injuries, including pregnant women. In a personal essay titled "Hi. Examples of miscarriage in a Sentence. Among women who know they are pregnant, the miscarriage rate is roughly 10% to 20%, while rates among all fertilisation is around 30% to 50%. The secrecy around early pregnancy means that many women grieve in private, weighed down by feelings of guilt and failure, says author Katy Lindemann. two miscarriages at aged 38 in 4 months hi, i have had 2 miscarriages one in october last year at 6 weeks which was natrual and complete and one in february which was a missed miscarriage. Recurrent miscarriage is thought to have multiple etiologies, including parental. Missed miscarriage/missed abortion. Although the actual cause of the miscarriage is frequently unclear, the most common reasons include the following: An abnormal fetus is almost always the cause of miscarriages during the first 3 months of pregnancy (first trimester). RELATED: How Facebook is helping me cope with my miscarriage. I also had a missed miscarriage in Sept. Anyway two days ago I went in for an emergency ultrasound because the doctor couldn't hear the heartbeat in the office. The latest global news, sport, weather and documentaries. Then she sat down at the kitchen table and tried to think of anything she might. Men's world 100m king Coleman banned for two years over missed tests. "I suffered a missed miscarriage just before my wedding in 2016. Factors Influencing Miscarriage Chances. With this Mod it is possible for pregnant Sims to wake up with Cramps and Pain or when they are really tired and hungry (see more Info below). Q: How long is each episode? Q: The intro screen says some characters are fictional - which ones? October Streaming Picks. The commonest reason for a first trimester miscarriage is a genetic defect in the embryo. If the miscarriage took place after fourteen weeks of your pregnancy, then there are possibilities of producing milk from the breasts. How did your previous pregnancy proceed? Did you feel well throughout the whole pregnancy? Patient: My previous pregnancy was uneventful. Teens and older women are more likely to miscarry due to chromosomal defects. Miscarriage is a common thing and about 40-50% of pregnancies result in a miscarriage. " In March 2014, Lindsay Lohan revealed that a painful miscarriage was the reason she missed some filming for. One of the common complications of pregnancy is a natural miscarriage. Differences in post-traumatic stress, anxiety and depression following miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy between women and their partners: a multicenter prospective cohort study. Experiencing a miscarriage is fairly common, occurring in 10 to 25 percent of pregnancies. will have at least one miscarriage at some point during their reproductive lives. At Fertility Centre Georgia , we have a well-qualified team of fertility specialists, medical professionals, urologists, endocrinologists, and other staff who put collaborated efforts in ensuring that you receive the best quality treatment in Georgia. You can use it by itself as a term of address or combine it with a surname, a descriptor of a prominent characteristic, or something she represents. Sadness, anxiety, and guilt may occur. How to sign up for emergency text alerts in Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, L. The bleeding can vary from light to heavy, perhaps with blood clots, and may come and go for a few days (NICE 2018). C) Vaginal bleeding during early pregnancy is a true sign of a miscarriage. BBC World News TV. Shyness is a problem that is common (0) ___to___many people. In women, giving birth after 35 years, pathology is also more common than in young women. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for miscarriage. The rate is much higher if you take into account “chemical pregnancies” which are the losses that occur within the first week after the missed period. Or, you may notice signs of pregnancy fade. Pregnant women may sometimes have breakout bleeding at the time of missed period. Generally, a blighted ovum is considered a one-time event and fluke of nature. The term "missed abortion" refers to an inevitable miscarriage in a woman who has not yet experienced any vaginal bleeding or uterine cramping 1. If the loss happens between 12 weeks and 24 weeks, it is called a late miscarriage (RCOG 2011). Now you have some of the best romantic missing you quotes and messages that. Missed Abortion/Missed Miscarriage When the baby dies and stays inside the uterus for at least two weeks before the miscarriage occurs. Tissue or clot like material may also come out of the vagina. What is a missed miscarriage? Miscarriage (also known as early pregnancy loss) occurs in an Consequently, missed miscarriages are often discovered incidentally during a first trimester "There's a common myth that you have to wait a certain number of months," Zwingerman notes. Miscarriage - an easy to understand guide covering causes, diagnosis, symptoms, treatment Missed abortion or miscarriage — A missed abortion refers to a miscarriage in which the fetus has died. Read on to learn what a patient must prove in a medical malpractice lawsuit based on misdiagnosis, the different types of diagnostic errors, and why misdiagnosis is more common in emergency room settings. A miscarriage is something that happens when a pregnancy stops growing. They are usually conducted with healthy volunteers, and the goal is to determine the drug's most frequent and serious adverse events and, often, how the drug is broken down and excreted by the body. Chrissy Teigen writes heartfelt essay about her miscarriage. In contrast, infertility is the inability to conceive. Perhaps the embryo had the wrong number of chromosomes. com According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), about 15 to 20 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriage. Courtney Stodden’s Miscarriage Is A Sad Reminder Of How Common Miscarriage Is, Even In Young Adults The actress, 21, shared that she recently suffered a miscarriage. Google is the worse place honestly don't google anything. Sending adorable messages to tell her you love her and miss her when you guys are away from each other is a great way to keep your relationship alive. Miscarriages are common, occurring in 15-20% of all pregnancies, usually in the first trimester (up to 13 weeks). Sporadic miscarriages are considered to primarily represent failure of abnormal embryos to progress to viability. 3 Sign in with Google; Mark as found. Signs and Symptoms: You may continue to feel signs of pregnancy if the placenta still releases hormones. The most common cause is a genetic abnormality of the fetus. A missed miscarriage is when a baby has died in the womb, but the mother hasn’t had any symptoms, such as bleeding or pain. See full list on drugs. If your dog has experienced a miscarriage, the most common thing you may notice is abnormal vaginal bleeding; in some cases an expelled fetus may be found. Here are some specifics on what type of mask to wear and when, depending on how much virus is circulating where you live, where you go and who you are. The most common symptoms of miscarriage are bleeding and cramping. We can't avoid them altogether, but we can handle them with grace. We seek revolution through the education of the masses. and Miss & other commonly used words, phrases, & idioms in the English language. So it is fairly common. The week before I went on vacation I was almost at 12 weeks and my baby had a normal heart beat everything looked good. A miscarriage doesn't necessarily mean that there's a problem with the mother's reproductive function. The most common symptom of a miscarriage is vaginal bleeding with or without pain. On the financial side, a common risk reduction strategy is to require two signatures for checks over a certain amount. When a woman is told she has had a “missed miscarriage,” she may choose to let the fetal tissue leave her body on its own or to undergo dilation and curettage, a procedure we know as a “D&C. How common is miscarriage? What causes miscarriage? Missed abortion: the fetus has not developed, so there is no viable pregnancy, but there is placental tissue and/or fetal tissue contained within the uterus. Finally, spotting during pregnancy can indeed be caused by miscarriage, whether missed or impending. And it's playing in my mind what if this time it's the same? I'm finding it hard to get emotionally attached to the idea of me being pregnant even Tho it was planned. There is a common prejudice that girls who are very beautiful must automatically be lacking in ___ matter - they are so-called "dumb blondes". I wish as a young girl that someone had explained to me how normal it was have a miscarriage. The frequency of clinically recognized early pregnancy loss for women aged 20–30 years is 9–17%, and this rate increases sharply from 20% at age 35 years to 40% at age 40 years and 80%. How did we keep going? After five pregnancies and three miscarriages, we were convinced we were finished with trying to have any more children. It’s possible you may think you’re pregnant based on symptoms like a missed period (or a positive pregnancy test), but these chemical pregnancies, which account for up to 75 percent of all miscarriages, are lost so early after implantation (usually just two weeks. This is my fourth pregnancy, my last one ended in March by miscarriage. Miscarriages can occur anywhere along the first 20 week stretch, but most often happen at week 4, week 8, week 12 and week 16 of pregnancy. The frequency of this type of pregnancy failure has been shown to be about 60% of all pregnancy failures. The secrecy around early pregnancy means that many women grieve in private, weighed down by feelings of guilt and failure, says author Katy Lindemann. It is sometimes found when women have bleeding in early pregnancy, or it may be found during routine tests. Learn about miscarriage symptoms, what might cause a miscarriage and how to cope with pregnancy loss. (In the cases included in the study, doctors had. C Moreover, some areas use pumps to pump water away from homes and. Miscarriage is very common in the first few weeks of pregnancy. The highest risks of a second miscarriage and other pregnancy complications were seen among women who conceived more than 24 months after miscarriage. Gain is a common verb used to describe having different experiences and learning more about how to respond to different situations. Pregnant women may sometimes have breakout bleeding at the time of missed period. ' This is different from a stillbirth which is in the third trimester. The reason stated in my ultrasound reports was a blighted ovum which clearly meant that the pregnancy could not progress after implantation. missed miscarriage and rising HCG levels? - posted in Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss: Has anyone had a missed miscarriage and your HCG levels continue to rise? My first scan on the 14th showed our. What are the common symptoms? Common signs of a miscarriage include: Bleeding from the vagina. the midwife has told me to do a pregnancy test at the weekend just in case as any earlier it would show HCG levels from the miscarriage. But is it possible to have a miscarriage without experiencing any symptoms?. Another term for a miscarriage is a "spontaneous abortion. In this article, we shall look at the risk factors, clinical features and management of miscarriage. Of particular concern is the possibility that it may be erroneously diagnosed when another condition that requires immediate treatment or long-term followup exists, such as an ectopic pregnancy or gestational trophoblastic disease. Missed miscarriage — You have no cramps or bleeding. Anti-D immunoglobulin is no longer recommended for Rh D negative women after a threatened miscarriage less than 12 weeks gestation. How common are missed miscarriages after seeing heartbeat? If you are pregnant, have no vaginal bleeding, and are without other risk factors, most estimates suggest that your odds of having a miscarriage after seeing a fetal heartbeat are about 4 percent. While Fatigue and exhaustion can be experienced as sign of miscarriage at 10 weeks. If a miscarriage has not already happened, there are a number of ways to treat you. Misdiagnosed miscarriage at 6 weeks. This is a missed miscarriage, also called a silent miscarriage. If bleeding and cramping are already heavy, the miscarriage is probably already well under way. In most cases we have missed abortion where there are no. The most common cause, according to American Pregnancy Association (APA), is a chance chromosomal or genetic abnormality in the embryo. These are the most common reasons that women miscarry. A missed miscarriage is often known as a silent miscarriage because women generally do not have common miscarriage symptoms, such as vaginal bleeding, heavy cramping, or expulsion of fetal tissue. A miscarriage is a pregnancy that ends unexpectedly before 20 weeks gestation. Very Early Miscarriage. The ultrasound would show a pregnancy which is smaller. This means that the first signs of a missed miscarriage are usually discovered during the first pregnancy scan. Like some of you, I am pg with my 1st and have had little or no symptoms, just some tiredness a few times and slightly sore boobs now and again. Many more miscarriages happen before a woman is even aware she has become pregnant. Horsager-Boehrer explains some of the most typical reasons for pregnancy loss. Hi Kimberly Missed miscarriage is not common at all. And how you felt about the experience. Early miscarriages are incredibly common, but experiencing one can feel isolating for a variety of reasons: Many women conceive, but lose the pregnancy before they have a missed period and, therefore, don’t know they’ve experienced a miscarriage. A missed miscarriage usually happens because something went wrong in early pregnancy. Miscarriages are common, and in most cases aren't preventable. 1 The true rate of miscarriage is probably higher because many losses occur preclinically, before a menstrual period is missed. Missed miscarriage. The same common, incorrect assumptions came up again and again. "How little I care that it's something you wouldn't have done. It seems missed miscarriages are much less common than miscarriage in general. It was well-intentioned impotence. In the RF all citizens can receive health service… at the medical colleges b). The couple already had a daughter, now 6, and Dickey, a 38-year-old speech pathologist near Dallas. Late Miscarriage What is a late miscarriage? Doctors describe a late miscarriage as one that happens after 12 weeks and before 24 weeks of pregnancy. The title of Ms. I also had a missed miscarriage in Sept. Miscarriage Poems - Examples of all types of poems about miscarriage to share and read. Among women who know they're pregnant, it's estimated about 1 in 8 pregnancies will end in miscarriage. Common Treatments for Miscarriage. You may experience bleeding and cramps for a few weeks following the. Common cold. Missed miscarriage: Occurs when embryonic death occurs without any expulsion of the embryo itself. Eukaryotes as well as protists, a miscellany group made up of eukaryote-like plant, animal and fungi missing one or more characteristics to be defined as purely eukaryotic, differ greatly from prokaryotes in structure. There are 78% chances of continuing the pregnancy. If you wait long enough it will mc on its' own. The common signs and symptoms of miscarriage in early pregnancy such as frequent urination, bleeding, discharge of mucus, cramps in lower Missed miscarriage can also be identified by observing certain symptoms. I hadn't even heard of a missed miscarriage until it happened to me. With a missed abortion, the pregnancy stops developing but the pregnancy tissue does not pass out of the uterus for at least 4 weeks. One at 15 weeks and the other at 23 weeks. (You may hear women also call it a missed miscarriage. At aged 42, it’s one in two. The body does not expel the pregnancy tissue. Smoking cigarettes during pregnancy can cause miscarriages. The rate is much higher if you take into account “chemical pregnancies” which are the losses that occur within the first week after the missed period. A miscarriage doesn't necessarily mean that there's a problem with the mother's reproductive function. Life is full of awkward and uncomfortable moments. Perhaps the embryo had the wrong number of chromosomes. We'll email you when new articles are published on this topic. About 1 in 100 women experience recurrent miscarriages, and happily more than 60% of these women go on to have a successful pregnancy. The most common sign of miscarriage is the bleeding (whether minimal spotting or heavy bleeding) which might be associated with lower abdominal Sometimes sudden cessation of the morning sickness might be a clue to miscarriage. hCG testing return to normal within 2-4 w after a completed miscarriage After E, M or S TT: many clinicians measure a serum hCG level weekly until it is undetectable. Your body will react by having a tension headache. How common is a miscarriage after donor egg treatment? Since egg quality and age are leading drivers to the rate of miscarriage, patients using donor egg treatment often see a lower rate of miscarriage than their same age counterparts who are using their own eggs. Risk factors for miscarriage include an older parent, previous miscarriage, exposure to tobacco smoke, obesity, diabetes, and drug or alcohol use, among others. Common signs of miscarriage. Chemical pregnancies may account for 50-75% of all miscarriages. Learn how to answer the common 'what are your strengths and weaknesses?' interview question by highlighting your skills and habits and read example answers. Miscarriages are very common and the things that most often cause them can't be prevented. This section provides an alphabetical list (A-M) of common error messages for the Kerberos commands, Kerberos daemons, PAM framework, GSS interface, the NFS service, and the Kerberos library. I just got an early negative pregnancy test (BFN), can I still be pregnant? The purpose of this study is to look at the statistics of early negative pregnancy tests (Commonly called BFN - Big Fat Negative in the community) when later followed by a positive pregnancy test (BFP - Big fat Positive in the community lingo. Late Miscarriage What is a late miscarriage? Doctors describe a late miscarriage as one that happens after 12 weeks and before 24 weeks of pregnancy. ' This is different from a stillbirth which is in the third trimester. So let's say 23%. is a title used before a surname or full name of a female whether she is married or not. Missed miscarriages are thankfully rare, affecting around 1 percent of all pregnancies, a much lower rate than the overall rate of miscarriages which is 20 percent. It is estimated that 1 in 5 pregnancies end in miscarriage. Miscarriage, also known in medical terms as a spontaneous abortion and pregnancy loss, is the natural death of an embryo or fetus before it is able to survive independently. This confirmed that I've suffered a missed miscarriage. On the financial side, a common risk reduction strategy is to require two signatures for checks over a certain amount. With a missed miscarriage, a woman may choose to wait a few days to see if the tissue naturally passes on its own. Comfort food never seemed more important. It also helps for pregnancy dating purposes to know when your last menstrual period was. Often, the only signs of a missed miscarriage are the loss of all pregnancy symptoms, and less commonly, a brownish discharge. Exam practice, constant revision, exam techniques and how to get the highest possible grade— is this what education is supposed to be about?. We refer to young girls as "Miss. Unfortunately during a missed miscarriage or missed abortion, many women do not experience common miscarriage symptoms, such as heavy bleeding and abdominal pain. The quality of a post is primarily judged by how much it contributes to a constructive discussion. Miscarriage - Learn about the causes, symptoms, diagnosis & treatment from the MSD Manuals Miscarriages are more common in high-risk pregnancies, particularly when women are not Whether this approach is safe depends on how much tissue is left, how the uterus appears on an ultrasound of. Many times the woman may not have symptoms, and this may be found on an ultrasound. How Common Is It?. Missed miscarriage at 12 weeks. In women with irregular periods prior to pregnancy, the first period after abortion may come as late as 12 weeks. The information I got from you guys help me to realize I had a. One at 15 weeks and the other at 23 weeks. As I opened up about my experience to friends and family, I realized miscarriages are far more common than I had thought. If a D&C was done after the miscarriage, periods can be expected to start after 4 weeks. Another common misunderstanding about miscarriage is that a woman will experience less grief if she loses Her father-in-law statement's reflected how miscarriage was seen by an earlier generation as having nothing to I miss her. Useful resources: Tommy’s. Clear answers for common questions. Miscarriage - an easy to understand guide covering causes, diagnosis, symptoms, treatment Missed abortion or miscarriage — A missed abortion refers to a miscarriage in which the fetus has died. Emoji are one tool to limit the risk of missing the mark when writing. Hello I am Dr. The couple already had a daughter, now 6, and Dickey, a 38-year-old speech pathologist near Dallas. And they can happen for a range of. Missed Miscarriage. Courtney Stodden’s Miscarriage Is A Sad Reminder Of How Common Miscarriage Is, Even In Young Adults The actress, 21, shared that she recently suffered a miscarriage. Miscarriage is the most common complication in pregnancy, but many people don’t understand why it occurs. The virus that causes COVID-19 appears to spread more efficiently than influenza but not as efficiently as measles, which is among the most contagious viruses known to affect people. Problems in the chromosomes cause an abnormal fetus and are found in more than half of miscarried fetuses. How did your previous pregnancy proceed? Did you feel well throughout the whole pregnancy? Patient: My previous pregnancy was uneventful. She endured what is, for women, an incredibly common experience. Although miscarriages are common, I don't think missed miscarriages are very common. Since this is the case, if you are pregnant or planning to get pregnant, it’s recommended you stop drinking coffee at least three months before trying to conceive. Transabdominal ultrasound involves scanning through your lower abdomen. You may not have had any of the usual signs of miscarriage , such as pain or bleeding. Miscarriage, or the loss of a pregnancy in the first 20 weeks, is a very common experience, especially within the first 13 weeks of a pregnancy (1). Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) approaches miscarriages with the use of acupuncture and herbs to promote energy and circulation balancing within specific channels and pathways. Miscarriage, incomplete abortion, or childbirth. severe belly pain. Subject: Miscarriage after seeing heartbeat -- how common? Anonymous I don't know the stats, you could probably google them, but I had cramping and bleeding at around 8 weeks, after having seen the heartbeat, and the OB told me it was very rare to miscarry after seeing the heartbeat. When a foetus dies quite early during pregnancy, and the tissue continues to remain in the mother’s womb, it is known as a missed miscarriage. Miscarriage is very common and usually occurs in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. In poignant terms Oswald asked Connally to redress what was a transparent miscarriage of justice. Here's what you might go through, plus some tips on how to cope. is going to give me another u/s a week from today just to confirm but since I'm certain of O date they are not optimistic. Miss Angel and Miss Devil Newest Chapter. A missed miscarriage (also sometimes referred to as a silent or delayed miscarriage) is when fetal death occurs without symptoms. Some use the cutoff of 20 weeks of gestation, after which fetal death is known as a stillbirth. Miscarriages are extremely common and largely due to factors outside of anyone's control. Among the more common miscarriage symptoms are bleeding, cramping, and pain. a woman who has suffered multiple miscarriages a high risk of miscarriage. A miscarriage is the loss of a fetus during pregnancy. I was immediately told of a missed miscarriage since I didn’t experience any miscarriage symptoms. These are very common, according to a study, approximately 50% of pregnant women can experience a miscarriage. Don’t quote me, but that’s what I’ve heard. A missed miscarriage occurs when there are no symptoms of miscarriage—such as cramps or bleeding—but a scan reveals that the fetus has no heartbeat, says Mahnert. Miscarriage Miscarriage, also known as spontaneous abortion and pregnancy loss, is the natural death of an embryo or fetus before it is able to survive independently. Of particular concern is the possibility that it may be erroneously diagnosed when another condition that requires immediate treatment or long-term followup exists, such as an ectopic pregnancy or gestational trophoblastic disease. My 12 week scan is 3 weeks away and I have been worrying about missed miscarriages since I read about them and from the posts on this site they seemed quite common. A small amount of ultrasound gel is put on the skin of the lower abdomen, with the ultrasound probe then scanning through this gel. As many as 15-25% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, and the number of miscarriages in England is estimated to be approximately 125,000 per year. the midwife has told me to do a pregnancy test at the weekend just in case as any earlier it would show HCG levels from the miscarriage. January 1, 2009 CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS 5 Part 1200 to End Revised as of January 1, 2009 Administrative Personnel Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect As of January 1, 2009 With Ancillaries. There is a common prejudice that girls who are very beautiful must automatically be lacking in ___ matter - they are so-called "dumb blondes". BYJU'S comprehensive e-learning programs for K3, K10, K12, NEET, JEE, UPSC & Bank Exams from India's best teachers. The bleeding may be light or heavy, constant or off and on. For this reason, missed miscarriages like mine are typically diagnosed by ultrasound, says Scott Sullivan, M. It’s called a missed miscarriage because you probably won’t realize that anything has gone wrong. I kept it from most of my friends who seemed to have “easy as pie” experiences with conception and pregnancy. The phrase that time heals all wounds is easier said than done however, and months may pass without any sign of light in your eyes. Of particular concern is the possibility that it may be erroneously diagnosed when another condition that requires immediate treatment or long-term followup exists, such as an ectopic pregnancy or gestational trophoblastic disease. Missed miscarriage - These are fetuses that are no longer viable but usually did not present with the signs and symptoms of miscarriage. An incomplete miscarriage will usually be passed within 6-8 hours of the medication and a missed miscarriage can happen quickly or may not happen for a few weeks. Types of Miscarriage. An ultrasound scan of a normal pregnancy at six-and-a-half weeks (meaning that it was done two-and-a-half weeks after the woman's missed period. The virus that causes COVID-19 appears to spread more efficiently than influenza but not as efficiently as measles, which is among the most contagious viruses known to affect people. This can be sign of miscarriage at 9 weeks. The relationship you have with your spouse, family, friends and even yourself is stretched. At Fertility Centre Georgia , we have a well-qualified team of fertility specialists, medical professionals, urologists, endocrinologists, and other staff who put collaborated efforts in ensuring that you receive the best quality treatment in Georgia. Light vaginal bleeding is relatively common during the first trimester (the first 3 months) and does not necessarily mean you're having a miscarriage, but all bleeding should be checked. Sometimes, insomnia only lasts a few days and goes away on its own, especially when the insomnia is tied to an obvious temporary cause, such as stress over an upcoming presentation, a painful breakup, or jet lag. I was told by the sonographer that they see about one person every day with a mmc which seems pretty low considering how many people they must see. I just had a miscarriage at 20 weeks, and I know several people that have had one later.
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Republicans: Obstructionism regarded as a plus?
I’m getting ancient.
I can remember when parties avoided appearing to be obstructionists. Sure, senators killed a judicial nomination now and then, but they gave reasons—the nominee was not experienced enough or peddled marijuana from his desk or something.
Last week Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s declaration that Obama shouldn’t even bother submitting a Supreme Court nominee was seconded by several other senators. They flat out said they would not approve anyone. (Since 1900 six Supreme Court nominees have been approved during a president’s final year. I don’t know that any vacancies went unfilled until a new president was elected.)
Not all Republican senators rushed to the obstructionist banner; a couple even suggested nominees they’d accept. Yet, an official of Heritage Action, an arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, advised Republicans to block any appontment. “Republican rhetoric condemning President Obama’s willful disregard for the rule of law will ring hollow if they do confirm a nominee.”
So obstructionism may be a plus for Republicans.
There’s a thin line between opposing an action and obstructing it. As much as I resent paying for Idaho’s court fight against gay marriage, it was about the power of a public vote. This year’s fight over allowing gay couples to file joint income tax returns, however, was pure grandstanding. Not even Reps. Heather Scott and Ron Nate could have believed Idaho could allow same-sex marriages and not allow same-sex tax returns.
Will this help them in May? Or November?
Last year obstructionism led to Idahoans paying for a special session. Failing to pass the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act to bring state law in alignment with Federal law, would have cost the state $50 million and hurt many citizens. Yet, even in special session, 21 representatives voted against the bill.
Do constituents consider those 21 stalwart or irresponsible?
Some may see a principle behind legislative opposition to Medicaid expansion. I don’t. What sense is there in extending health insurance to those on welfare but not to low-wage earners? What principle is served by letting a man with two kids making $12 an hour get help paying for insurance while a co-worker with four kids cannot?
Legislators’ claims that they reject the program because the Federal government may go broke are absurd. Idaho is second in the nation for the amount of Federal aid per capita yet legislators haven’t suggested cutting other programs. And arguments for personal responsibility ring hollow when a week’s medical bills can equal a family’s annual income.
I appreciate the legislators who are now standing up for Idaho’s uninsured.
Legislators will also consider retreating from the pointless and expensive obstruction to the Federal Real ID Act. In 2008 legislators passed a law forbidding the Idaho Transportation Department to comply with the act’s requirements to make it harder to forge drivers’ licenses in spite of the fact Idahoans rights to enter certain Federal buildings and to fly in commercial airlines was at stake.
Obama was nowhere in the picture; the Act was created by a Republican Congress and signed by a Republican president. Still, Idaho Republicans resented an “unpaid mandate.”
Could they have imagined the Feds would exempt Idaho indefinitely? That, after the majority of states complied, that they would say, “we really didn’t mean it?” or “Idaho gets in free?” Could they have imagined Idahoans giving up flying or entering Federal buildings?
Now, we are up against a deadline and will have to pay extra for a program that could have been phased in.
Don’t Republican voters get tired of paying for obstructionism?
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Yemen: Sale Of Arms To KSA Violation Of International Law
Escalating violations, including possible war crimes, that have sparked a humanitarian crisis amid Yemen’s armed conflict will only worsen unless all states immediately impose a comprehensive embargo on arms transfers that could be used by any of the warring parties, Amnesty [continue reading].
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Syria: MSF’s Dr. Joanne Liu Demands – Stop Bombing Medics
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Kurdistan: Kurdish Forces Violating Child Soldier Ban
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Hillary Clinton Documentary Reveals Obama Called Trump a ‘Fascist’
Then-President Barack Obama decried candidate Donald Trump as a “fascist” during a phone conversation with Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) amid the heat of the 2016 presidential election, the failed vice-presidential pick Kaine reveals in a forthcoming documentary on Hillary Clinton, according to NBC News.
In an episode of Hillary, a four-part documentary series airing on Hulu, about the former secretary of state’s life, Kaine recalls his conversation with Obama while conversing with Clinton and wife Anne Holton.
“President Obama called me last night and said, ‘Tim, remember, this is no time to be a purist. You’ve got to keep a fascist out of the White House,’” said the Virginia Democrat, adding that the then-president “knows me and he knows that I could tend to err.”
“I echo that sentiment,” Clinton replied. “But that’s really — the weight of our responsibility is so huge.”
The date of the exchange is unknown.
Obama’s reported characterization of President Trump is his strongest attack on the Republican known to date. The former president took a veiled shot at Trump in his 2016 Democrat National Convention speech, warning “homegrown demagogues” threaten the United States.
Speaking Saturday at the Sundance film festival with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, Clinton expanded on thoughts about Obama’s pointed criticism.
“If you look at the definition [of fascist], which I’ve had the occasion to read several times,” said Clinton, “I think we can agree on several things: One, he has authoritarian tendencies and he admires authoritarian leaders, [Vladimir] Putin being his favorite,” she added. “He uses a form of really virulent nationalism. He identifies targets: immigrants, blacks, browns, gays, women, whoever the target of the day or week is … I think you see a lot of the characteristics of what we think of [as] nationalistic, fascistic kinds of tendencies and behaviors.”
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Naij.com interview performance artist Jelili Atiku about his recent arrest
A story by Artthrob on the 3rd of February 2016. This should take you 2 minutes to read.
Nigerian news website NAIJ.com has published an interview with contemporary sculptor and performance artist Jelili Atiku about his arrest following a performance entitled Aragamago Would Rid This Land off Terrorism on Thursday, January 14. He was arrested the following Sunday and held until Monday 18th. After a brief court appearance, Atiku was then held in Kirikiri prison for an additional two nights.
In the interview Atiku describes the performance which led to his arrest:
January 14 which was on Thursday, was a day I did my performance titled “Aragamago Would Rid This Land off Terrorism”. The performance was organized in the context of the campaign against terrorism. You are aware that the federal ministry of information and culture called a national call and it adopted a slogan from the American slogan that says, “See Something, Say Something”. And the action to Nigerians was to say something when they see something on terrorism. And so I used that performance to say something. But instead of concentrating on international terrorism, we prefer to talk about domestic terrorism. And because I’m presently working on the colonialisation process, I designed the performances to follow the Yoruba ritual and I had five performers with me. Two –three of them were having a white calabash, painted with white, carried on their head, with prayer book, the leaflet that I constructed as an object of performance. And we were in a procession. Each one of us had a special costume on with face unmask. With a miniature wooden sculptor. So we were in a procession. They were out the fliers, throwing it up and the audiences were picking it. So that was it.
Later in the interview, Atiku recounts the details of his arrest:
And on Sunday at about 10:45pm, about seven police officers came fully armed. Two of them were downstairs; five were in my room upstairs. They said I was under arrest, that the DPO would like to see me. And I said for what? And I asked should I call my lawyer, they said no that i cannot make a call. So I went to the station with them, I met the DPO, who did not tell me what I did; he refused to talk to me. He said they should go and lock me up. They locked me up throughout the night. So the following day, which was on monday morning I was brought out of the cell. And i met a female police officer who introduced herself as the IPO in charge of the case. And I asked her which case? She said there was a complaint by a traditional ruler.
The full interview with NAIJ.com – including a harrowing account of his time in prison – can be found here.
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Randy Brecker – Randy in Brasil (2008)
Artist: Randy Brecker
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Genre: Latin Jazz
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Perhaps unfairly overshadowed by his brother, the late saxophonist Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker has, nevertheless been one of the most significant trumpeters of the past forty years. While his small discography as a leader contains as many misses as it does hits, he’s brought a unique voice to countless sessions, working with everyone from Horace Silver, Steve Khan and John Scofield to Steely Dan, Parliament and Frank Zappa, not to mention redefining the concept of fusion as co-leader of Brecker Brothers. Brecker’s tone- -a curious combination of warmth and bite—and a harmonic approach that, like Scofield, manages to tread the fine line between the in and the out, all the while possessing a keenly constructed melodic sense, makes him immediately recognizable in any context. Recorded in Brazil with a large cast of talented players, Randy in Brasil is Brecker at his most accessible, with style and substance on equal footing.
The lack of a core group often results in a generic sound that looks to the leader for definition, and Brecker’s voice clearly gives Randy in Brasil its primary focus. Still, the participation of keyboardist/producer/arranger Ruria Duprat and guitarist Ricardo Silveira on all tracks lends the session a cohesion most “cast of thousands” projects lack. The material is largely culled from popular Brazilian writes including Djavan, Gilberto Gil, Ivan Lins and Joao Bosco, though Brecker’s two contributions—the breezy ballad “Guaruja” and up-tempo, samba-esque yet characteristically funkified “Sambop”—fit seamlessly into the program.
The Brecker Brothers often dabbled with broader cultural styles, and Brecker is no stranger to Brazilian music having guested with Flora Purim, Joao Donato and Hector Martignon. Most remarkable about Randy in Brasil is perhaps how he places a firm stamp on the music, with a sometimes pervasive Brecker Brothers vibe despite the lack of a rhythm section on most tracks. Duprat’s appreciation for Brecker’s distinct horn voicings makes Lins’ funky, synth bass-driven “Aiaiai” feel, in fact, as if it were drawn straight from The Brecker Brothers’ songbook.
Equally, Brecker adapts effortlessly to the cadence of Brazilian rhythmic forms like bossa nova and samba. There’s no denying the Brazilian groove of Gil’s bright “Ile Aye,” the contemporary vibe of Djavan’s “Me Leve” or the light, airy feel of Bosco’s “Olhos Puxados.” Throughout, Brecker solos with attention to the tune’s melodic and percussive essence—navigating his own winding changes on “Sambop” as he constructs a solo of narrative perfection that demonstrates his full range, and displaying equal focus but greater lyrical simplicity on “Olhos Puxados.”
As a leader, Brecker’s albums have sometimes lacked a clear focus or, in the case of Hanging in the City (ESC, 2001), a misplaced one with his vocal alter-ego Randroid. With its lush sound, beautiful song choices and ideal mesh of Brazilian culture and Brecker’s singular voice, Randy in Brasil stands as one of his finest—if not the finest—albums in his long and varied career.
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New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) Rohit Shetty has actually linked the world of “Singham”, “Simmba” and his approaching movie “Sooryavanshi”– developing his own “cop universe” in Bollywood. However the filmmaker states the choice to combine together the popular films was not a simple one.
“I can’t claim that I am making India’s superheroes. But we are creating our own universe and I am happy that people are loving it and they know about this universe,” Rohit informed IANS
“When I started with ‘Simmba’, when we were scripting for the film and we thought about the universe getting merged, I was a bit scared. Whether people will (like it)… Suddenly they should not feel ‘what is happening’,” he included.
Apart from being laced with the star power of Ranveer Singh and the appeal of Sara Ali Khan, “Simmba” was admired for bringing the world of Rohit’s franchises together easily.
Whether it was putting the cast of his “Golmaal” together in the electrifying “Aankh maare” with a possible tip about another movie in the franchise, or Ajay Devgn pertaining to the rescue of Simmba in his Singham avatar, or the intro of Akshay as “Sooryavanshi” in the end– “Simmba” amused fans for its crossover action drama.
Rohit mores than happy that the danger settled well.
“I more than happy that it was so well gotten. When we revealed ‘Sooryavanshi’ and presented the character in ‘Simmba’, it provided us the self-confidence and we had actually taken a larger danger.
“It was a big danger and I was worried and terrified about the first-weekend response to‘Simmba’ In the very first day just, it was so favored. It provided us self-confidence and duty that ‘Okay, we can continue with this universe and expand it’.”
Akshay’s “Sooryavanshi” will take it forward.
The movie is backed by Rohit Shetty Pictures in association with Dharma Productions and Cape of Good Films. It is produced by Hiroo Yash Johar, Aruna Bhatia, Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta and Rohit.
“That is what ‘Sooryavanshi’ is all about. It is going to expand the universe… let’s see what happens.”
At the minute, Rohit is elated to launch “Golmaal Jr.”.
The channel Sonic, from the Nickelodeon franchise in association with Reliance Animation and Rohit Shetty Picturez, will revive the world of “Golmaal”– this time in an enjoyable animated method. The series will go on air on May13 “Golmaal Jr.” recreates the turmoil of the movie by pitting 2 trick gangs versus each other.
On the idea behind the series, Rohit stated: “It began with‘Little Singham’ It was like an experiment whether the kids will like it or not … It did so well that it provided us the self-confidence to make ‘Golmaal’ into an animated franchise.
“We understood that ‘Golmaal’ is larger when the animation is worried due to the fact that it has actually got a lot of characters … The program is funny and it will leave you with a feel-good sensation.”
What about the next chapter of “Golmaal” for the big screen?
“It (the franchise) will keep going on… Till the time we all grow old,” he stated.
Source: IANS.
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Action Point (R for profanity, sexuality, brief nudity, crude humor, drug use and underage drinking) Daredevil Johnny Knoxville stars in this stunt comedy as the crackpot owner of a daredevil theme park where the rides and attractions have been designed with danger in mind. With Brigette Lundy-Paine, Johnny Pemberton and Susan Yeagley.
Adrift (PG-13 for peril, profanity, partial nudity, mature themes, injury images and brief drug use) Tale of survival recounting the real-life ordeal of a young couple (Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin) who encountered one of the worst hurricanes in recorded history while sailing in a small boat from Tahiti to San Diego. With Jeffrey Thomas, Elizabeth Hawthorne and Grace Palmer.
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by Anna Raccoon on February 27, 2010
Kate Harding was nine years old when she helped her Mother dig over their garden in Tenbury Wells. Her Mother found this object, which looks like a coin, walks like a coin, quacks like a coin, but is apparently, not a coin.
Her Mother died shortly after this event, and young Kate kept the ‘not a coin’ as a keepsake.
14 years later, she idly wandered into the Ludlow museum and asked jobsworth Peter Reavill whether he could tell her anything about it.
He told her that it was a piedfort, a rare piece struck for presentation purposes, and one of only four ever found in the UK.
Ms Harding didn’t want to part with the coin, it was of great sentimental value to her, but the museum were keen to possess it. They bombarded her with calls and letters telling her that under the Treasure Act 1996, she had 14 days in which to report her ownership of this item to the Coroner.
The Act defines as treasure, any item at least 300 years old which is not a coin but has a precious metal content of 10% or more. Even the Royal Mint describes a Piedfort as a coin – albeit not one in general circulation.
If Ms Harding had done any research she would have felt quite safe ignoring the pleading letters from Ludlow museum.
The museum were not to be thwarted though, when she ignored Peter Reavill, he reported her to the Coroner, who in turn called in the Police.
Yesterday she was up before the Ludlow magistrates – who ordered her to hand the coin over, AND pay £25 towards the cost of prosecuting her.
Quite apart from the technicality of whether this is a coin or not – and I hope that some kind hearted barrister offers to mount a spirited appeal for her – the State have just forcibly taken a precious memento from a young girl who lost her Mother at a tender age – for what?
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JuliaMFebruary 27, 2010 at 14:19
In order to prove that they hold all the cards, and the lowly serfs hold none, of course.
And how come this Act is retrospective anyway?
RogFebruary 27, 2010 at 15:09
I was reading this yesterday and got utterly hacked off at it.
I believe the only recourse left to Kate Harding is to kick Peter Reavill in the crutch as hard as possible.
RightwinggitFebruary 27, 2010 at 15:22
I do hope no one googles this cunts name and then clicks on the top link http://www.finds.org.uk/people/profile.php?personID=56
…which reveals the arseholes non job history as well as a rake of contact details.
Anna RaccoonFebruary 27, 2010 at 15:34
What a find Rightwinggit!
It would be a real shame if anyone took advantage of those details to let him know what they think of him wouldn’t it?
Gloria SmuddFebruary 27, 2010 at 15:50
No more than he’d deserve, I’d say.
Fred ThrungFebruary 27, 2010 at 15:50
Yes, excellent Rightwinggit. I haven’t taken advantage of your discovery and if anyone says I did I shall deny being associated with the email address I used. Sorry – didn’t use
This is the response I got (nice work if you can get it):
I will be out of the office starting 22/02/2010 and will not return until 15/03/2010.
I currently working part time following a period of paternity leave. I will endevour to reply to your email as soon as possible – but this maybe longer than usual.
Peter Reavill
Ancient and Tattered AirmanFebruary 27, 2010 at 20:11
It is safe to assume that he clearly knows his rights and entitlements.
Bit wobbly on the rights and entitlements of others though.
Dick PuddlecoteFebruary 27, 2010 at 21:46
Just when you thought the state and its cohorts couldn’t be more of a …
tuppennyblueFebruary 28, 2010 at 20:20
Quite apart from any dispute as to whether this artefact is a coin (“a flat disc or piece of metal with an official stamp, used as money” – Oxford English Dictionary) or not, there may be a question as to whether the Treasure Act 1996 was in force at the time the coin was found. If the coin was found before the Act came into force, (the story states that the coin was found in 1996 and the Act is dated 4th July 1996, though it may have actually come into force later) then it would be a breach of the finder’s human rights (article 7) to convict under this Act. What is more, it seems the finder was not Kate Harding, but her deceased mother. All of these points seem to be strong grounds for appeal. Best of Luck Kate!
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Top scientists warn of ‘ghastly future’ for planet as leaders underestimate ecological threats
The world is on track for a “ghastly future,” an international group of scientists has warned, with accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss threatening the survival of all of the planet’s species unless world leaders face up to the challenge and act urgently.
As part of a bleak “prognosis,” a team of 17 leading scientists on Wednesday cautioned that the future of the planet is “more dire and dangerous than is generally understood,” and say they have conducted the assessment to clarify the seriousness of the situation the world faces.
Citing some 150 studies describing the world’s environmental changes, the experts warn that world leaders need a “cold shower” wake-up call when it comes to the state of the planet, saying environmental conditions are “far more dangerous than currently believed” by civilians and scientists alike.
Daniel Blumstein, professor at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles and one of the authors of the article, told CNN it was no exaggeration to talk about a potential risk to our civilization.
“Maybe people certainly recognize it, but they don’t understand the urgency, or maybe they recognize it, but they don’t want to take the individual sacrifice,” he said.
The time delays between ecological deterioration and its socioeconomic impacts mean people do not grasp the seriousness and timeliness of the problem, the report’s authors said.
“The mainstream is having difficulty grasping the magnitude of this loss, despite the steady erosion of the fabric of human civilization,” lead author professor Corey Bradshaw, of Flinders University in Australia, said in a statement. “In fact, the scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its lifeforms is so great that it is difficult to grasp for even well-informed experts.”
A grave and understated threat to life
Time and again, scientists, experts and environmentalists have warned that the Earth has reached a crucial tipping point — recent research from the World Wide Fund for Nature found the world’s wildlife populations have fallen by an average of 68% in just over four decades, with human consumption behind the devastating decline.
We are in a sixth mass extinction, and humans are in the driving seat, having already wiped out hundreds of species and pushed many more to the brink of extinction through wildlife trade, pollution, habitat loss and the use of toxic substances.
In 2010, leaders from 196 countries gathered in Japan and agreed on a list of biodiversity targets designed to save the Earth — but in September, 10 years later, a UN panel concluded that the world had collectively failed to fully achieve a single target.
UN experts have been clear: If we maintain our trajectory in the accelerating climate crisis, biodiversity will continue to deteriorate — with devastating outcomes for the planet’s animals, plants and people.
But the international experts warn that no leader or political system is prepared for the disasters associated with biodiversity loss, or capable of addressing the crisis.
“We’ve said for years ‘we need to do this, that and the other thing,’ we know what the problems are, we just choose not to make the changes,” Blumstein said.
Eliminating fossil fuels, reining in corporate lobbying that influences policymaking and empowering women with access to education and reproductive control are among the steps necessary, he added.
“Stopping biodiversity loss is nowhere close to the top of any country’s priorities, trailing far behind other concerns such as employment, healthcare, economic growth, or currency stability,” professor Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University, one of the study’s authors, said.
“While it is positive news that President-elect Biden intends to reengage the US in (the) Paris Climate accord within his first 100 days of office, it is a minuscule gesture given the scale of the challenge,” he added.
Ehrlich is the author of “The Population Bomb,” a controversial 1968 text that warned of overpopulation, predicting millions of people would starve to death.
He has since said that while many details and timings of events were wrong, the book was correct overall, telling the Guardian in 2018: “Population growth, along with over-consumption per capita, is driving civilisation over the edge: billions of people are now hungry or micronutrient malnourished, and climate disruption is killing people.”
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The scientists warn that world leaders must act to avoid a grim future while planning for impending changes the planet is set to face — but hope is not lost.
Blumstein said he hoped the coronavirus pandemic could serve as a warning. “Covid, with all of the disruption that it has caused, is actually practice for the future,” he said. “This could actually help us move toward unifying and working together. Scientists, remarkably, have worked together. it’s the lack of effective world governance or even cooperation in many ways, when we see things breaking down.”
In the report, published in the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science, the authors wrote: “Our goal is not to present a fatalist perspective, because there are many examples of successful interventions to prevent extinctions, restore ecosystems, and encourage more sustainable economic activity at both local and regional scales.
“Instead, we contend that only a realistic appreciation of the colossal challenges facing the international community might allow it to chart a less-ravaged future,” the team added.
Still, they wrote, fundamental changes to global capitalism, education and equality are required to address the problem.
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Athletics want to pay off Coliseum debt, assume stadium ownership
The Oakland Athletics want to pay off the city's $135 million debt on the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in exchange for taking over ownership of the park, team president Dave Kaval wrote in a letter Monday to Mayor Libby Schaaf and the city council.
"If consummated, our offer would end the long-standing cash drain from the City and County's general funds caused by ownership of the Coliseum, and ensure that the A's possess one assured route to a new privately financed stadium in Oakland," Kaval wrote.
The request comes after the A's were denied their preferred site for a new ballpark, near the offices of the Peralta Community College District, when the Peralta board of trustees directed the chancellor in December to end talks with the team.
The A's had hoped to break ground on a new stadium at the Peralta site in 2021 and open it in 2023.
That left the A's with two options in Oakland: Howard Terminal and the Coliseum, where they currently play. The team is still evaluating Howard Terminal as a possible site but wants to protect itself after the Peralta decision.
"Of course, significant uncertainty remains on how the various challenges for Howard Terminal can be satisfied," Kaval wrote. "Given our previous experience at Peralta, it has become clear that the A's need to solidify control of the one site in Oakland that offers an assured path for the development of a new privately financed baseball venue -- the existing Coliseum complex."
Kaval indicated his team wants "to enter a formal negotiating agreement as soon as possible" with the city.
"This is a critical moment for the A's and our community," Kaval wrote. "The venue process has taken too long. We seek your immediate engagement to work with us on a transaction for the Coliseum complex, as we continue to plan for a state of the art privately financed new baseball park in Oakland. The future of the A's is too important to further risk alternate uses of the Coliseum site at this time."
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The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Marvel (Movies)
Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Pepper Potts & Tony Stark
Steve Rogers & Tony Stark
Thor (Marvel)
Natasha Romanov
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Domestic Avengers
Cap-Iron Man Big Bang
Cap-Iron Man Big Bang 2014
Illustrated Fic
2014 Captain America/Iron Man Big Bang, stonyforthesoul
Walk a Mile in Your Shoes
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In which the Avengers reassemble and none of them are quite themselves because Loki decided it would be totally awesome to see what would happen if they all swapped bodies. Tony has had quite enough of this now, thank you. Steve just wants this all to be over so that he can think about possibly dating (read: confess his love for Tony).
This is my entry for this year's Cap/Iron Man Big Bang! I had a really great time writing this story, and I had the fantastic honor of working with two amazing artists: teaberryblue and hayatecrawford!
teaberryblue was a great help in helping me get this story fine-tuned in addition to making awesome art, and kurowrites helped me pick out typos and oddly phrased sentences.
The art contains spoilers, so click at your own risk! It's also interspersed throughout the story to make an illustrated fic.
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It figured that two months after the Avengers separated following the battle of New York, the reason they would come back together would be Loki. Not that any of them aside from Tony knew that was the reason, of course.
They hadn’t all separated. Bruce had gone back with Tony to geek out in his tower, taking him up on his offer to share lab space (though Bruce had his own lab). Barton and Romanov were doubtlessly doing their own thing with S.H.I.E.L.D. But Thor had gone off to Asgard, and Rogers was somewhere in New York after riding off on that motorcycle of his.
The tower was still in the process of being repaired, though Tony and Pepper had made sure the windows were replaced and any sign that the roof had been used to make an alien portal was gone. But as every other scrap of manpower was devoted to rebuilding the city, Tony could do the rest himself.
When the tower would eventually be finished, Tony toyed with idea of inviting the Avengers to live there. He had the space, and there was no reason for a superhero team to be so firmly under the thumb of a government organization that had partly been responsible for the invasion because they’d messed with things beyond their comprehension (coughTesseractcough). It wasn’t set in stone, and that was because Tony had no idea about what was going on with the other team members. Would they be willing to move in? Did they want to?
Tony didn’t know, though he did have a chance to at least ask Barton and Romanov about a week after renovations were finished. JARVIS had picked up some strange energy readings by Central Park, so Tony had suited up and gone to check it out. S.H.I.E.L.D. arrived shortly after he did, and they didn’t find anything aside from one homeless guy who swore up and down the river that he’d seen a vibrantly purple pony that had set a tree on fire.
They found a charred tree, but they didn’t find a pony. Tony chalked it up to deliria, and Barton and Romanov actually agreed. They also gave him the cold shoulder when he tried to talk to them about possibly relocating to the really cool floors he’d built him.
Knowing when he was beat, Tony had let the matter drop. He did try to seek out Rogers, but Rogers was surprisingly good at giving him the slip when Tony wore the suit and then couldn’t be found at all when Tony went out as himself. It was aggravating and led to Tony putting JARVIS on the task of compiling together information as to Rogers’s habits so that he could eventually corner the man and offer him a place to stay that wasn’t some crappy apartment S.H.I.E.L.D. had thrown together. (And, no, this wasn’t stalker-y behavior, whatever you say, Pepper.)
But it all turned out to be moot anyway because of that damn Loki.
Tony hadn’t expected anything unusual to happen. JARVIS had finally put together enough information for Tony to track down Rogers at a coffee shop he usually frequented at a certain time of day. So one nice, sunny morning, Tony went out incognito wearing sunglasses, a baseball cap, and a dark hoodie. The disguise seemed to work since no one recognized him.
Then, after a good twenty minutes of just standing around for nothing because Rogers wasn’t showing up, Tony gave it up for lost and headed back to the tower, wondering if JARVIS had somehow made a mistake (but JARVIS didn’t make mistakes). Or maybe Rogers had suddenly decided to change up his routine (unlikely as that was as JARVIS had calculated the probability of that happening as being less than one percent). Tony had no idea except for the faint inkling that just maybe Rogers was avoiding him.
Disgruntled and also vaguely hurt because he’d hoped that he and Rogers would at least be on speaking terms after that handshake following Thor’s and Loki’s sendoff, Tony resigned himself to being the only one who really wanted this team to work. Aside from the imaginary pony incident, he hadn’t seen hide or hair of Romanov and Barton. He’d only seen brief glimpses of Rogers before the man gave him the slip. And Bruce didn’t count because the guy actually lived and worked with Tony.
Disappointment souring his mouth, Tony had made it into the elevator and pressed the button when he realized he wasn’t alone. The fact that he hadn’t noticed the guy was immediately less worrying than the fact it was Loki.
“You!” Tony yelped, pressing himself back against the wall. “I thought you were in Asgard!”
“I left,” Loki said, his green eyes piercing. He was wearing what looked like a classic rock band shirt under his Asgardian clothes, and it was so off-putting that Tony took a moment too long to think of a savvy response.
Loki’s lips curled in what could have been amusement but didn’t quite fit. “I am sure you will figure it out eventually,” he said seemingly sincerely. “You are quite brilliant.”
Tony eyeballed him skeptically, carefully inching towards where he could hit the emergency stop button and hopefully alert JARVIS that something wasn’t right.
“You’ll thank me for this later,” Loki said, reaching out a long-fingered hand to rest it against the arc reactor and oh fuck no!
Tony tried to push his hand away before it could come too close. “Get away—”
With a brush of Loki’s finger against the blue light of the reactor, Tony’s world went black.
People were panicking around him and someone was pressing fingers to his neck.
His head pounded uncomfortably for several seconds before the pain unexpectedly receded. Slapping the fingers away from his neck and hearing a pained “ow” as he did, Tony’s eyes flew open to meet the concerned brown eyes of a young woman.
“Sir?” she asked worriedly. “Are you all right? You just collapsed…”
Tony pushed himself up into a sitting position, confused when he realized these weren’t the clothes he’d been wearing earlier and that he was back outside.
“I’m fine,” he said abruptly, and then paused because that was not his voice. He hurriedly stood despite the protestations of the woman who’d been attending to him, and he nearly tipped over again when he noticed how weird he felt.
There was no obstruction in his chest, and patting a panicked hand over his sternum revealed that there had never been anything in there. Looking down showed his skin to be paler than usual and those were definitely not his hands. Or arms.
The shirt was S.H.I.E.L.D.-issued and sticking tightly to his skin; the pants weren’t much better.
“Oh shit,” Tony said, turning his hands around to stare at the back of them. So not his hands.
“Sir?” the woman repeated, tentatively touching his arm.
Tony whipped his head around, trying to find a reflective surface but failing because he was in the middle of what looked like Central Park.
“I’m good,” Tony told the woman, brushing her hand off. “Thanks for the concern.”
“Yep, absolutely.” His new voice was so damn familiar…”Have a great day!”
He ran off before the confused woman could say anything else, pushing through the small crowd that had formed to gawk.
Facts, get the facts together. Loki had shown up and obviously done something. Tony wasn’t in his body, but the voice was familiar enough that he knew the guy he was currently walking around in, although he couldn’t immediately place it.
And he was without a phone.
What kind of idiot went out without a phone?
Grumbling, Tony continued patting his pant pockets until he found a wallet. Then, as he was now out of the park and in the city, he sidled over to a window to get a look at who he was in.
He almost dropped the wallet when he saw his reflection.
He was Steve Rogers. He was inside Steve Rogers.
“Oh shit.” Tony saw Rogers’s lips move with the words and wasn’t that hilarious? Captain America swearing.
It would explain the lack of a phone.
But if he was Rogers, then where was Rogers? In his body?
He needed a phone. Now.
And ten minutes later he had one thanks to super soldier speed and a handy debit card that had apparently never been used judging from how shiny it was. Tony didn’t splurge – because it wasn’t his money and he wasn’t that much of an ass – but he also didn’t skimp, getting one of the better Stark models out there – not that he made bad phones, mind.
Frowning slightly at the rather sluggish pace of his thoughts, Tony put it off to Loki’s goddamn magic and dialed Pepper’s number, power walking to his tower as he did.
As an unknown number dialing Pepper Potts’s personal line, the call was answered quickly with a brisk “Who is this?”
“Pepper,” Tony said, “it’s Tony.”
There was a short pause. Then she spoke, voice deadly quiet. “Is this a joke?”
“No joke, honest.” Tony gave his passing reflection another glance, the unexpected image still throwing him off. “I’m guessing my body is freaking you out? Has it woken up yet?”
“Give me something,” Pepper demanded, brilliant woman she was.
“His first name is Agent,” Tony said without missing a beat, “and you get twelve percent of the credit. You were also the first to help me with the reactor after I came back,” he added in a softer tone.
“What – I don’t…” Pepper sounded utterly lost. “Tony?”
“I’m in Captain America,” Tony said. “Literally and not in the Biblical sense. And, man, this guy has some serious pecs.”
“What do you mean you’re in Captain America?”
“I mean I’m walking around in Captain America’s body. I woke up in Central Park, and I’m getting closer to the tower now.”
There was silence for a few seconds. Then Pepper whispered, “Then who do we have here?”
“I would hope the guy who’s supposed to be in this body,” Tony said. “I’m not surprised he hasn’t woken up yet.”
“How far away are you?”
“Close enough,” Tony said, picking up his pace. “Give me a few minutes. And if the guy wakes up while I’m not there, for the love of God please ask him why he would go out without a phone.”
“Did you buy a phone?”
“Of course I bought a phone!”
“Of course you did.” Pepper sounded both amused and resigned – probably planning to pay Rogers back. Her next words were slightly panicked. “Oh God, he’s waking up!”
“No problem.” Tony could see the tower’s base about two blocks away. “Give me five.”
“Done.” And Pepper hung up.
Now that his concentration was off the phone, Tony could pay more attention to how amazing this body was. Seriously, it was absolutely fantastic how quickly he could go from Point A to point B without even trying.
The only downside was how hungry he seemed to be at the moment, and it was becoming more urgent as time passed.
Well, he’d be in his penthouse soon enough. Then he could see who was in his body and also get a bite to eat.
His head was pounding and he was having trouble breathing. It felt like there was something sitting on his chest, preventing him from properly expanding his lungs and getting enough air. Pain also radiated out from around the general area.
Had he gotten shot? If so, why wasn’t he dead? Because the pain was situated right over his heart, and superhuman or not, he wasn’t bulletproof.
Steve groaned lightly, flinching when the sound only worsened his headache. He pressed his palms into his eyes, hoping the pressure would alleviate the ache. He’d thought he was done with these sorts of things after the serum. He definitely hadn’t gotten a headache since (or been sick at all).
Steve registered quiet breathing at his side and stiffened immediately. How come he hadn’t heard it before? Come to think of it, why was he lying on something soft and not on the pavement in Central Park?
His eyes snapped open, and he instantly regretted the action when the world swirled despite him not even having moved beyond that.
The ceiling looked kind of familiar, but not so much that Steve could place it. He turned his head, surprised to see Pepper Potts standing several feet away and staring down at him with wide eyes.
For a brief moment he considered the wild notion that maybe Stark had finally found him and drugged him to drag him back to his tower. Then Steve instantly told himself not to be silly because he’d seen Stark at the coffee shop Steve usually liked to stop by during his jog, and he knew for a fact that Stark hadn’t seen him.
He felt vaguely guilty for continually avoiding Stark, but the fact was that he had no idea how to act around the other man, and avoiding him was the best way to handle matters. At least until he figured out how to deal with it. (Bucky would be cursing him out about now and telling him to just man up, Rogers, and Steve had no doubt that Bucky and Stark would probably get along brilliantly.)
Glancing around the room, Steve saw that Stark was nowhere to be seen, and Ms. Potts was still eyeing him suspiciously (he didn’t really know why).
He carefully pushed himself partly upright, noting that his arms felt rather like limp noodles. “Ms. Potts,” he started, and then stopped upon hearing his voice. He tried again, “What—” No, that wasn’t his voice at all.
“Who are you?” Ms. Potts asked.
Steve latched onto the question like it was a lifeline. “Steve Rogers.”
Ms. Potts nodded as if she had expected that. “Would you like a mirror?” she asked cordially, sounding entirely too calm.
She didn’t wait for an answer, holding up a small compact mirror so Steve could see his reflection.
The wide brown eyes of Tony Stark stared back at him.
Recoiling in shock, Steve’s eyes flew up to meet Ms. Potts, and he was completely prepared to ask if this was a joke when he heard a dinging sound. He turned his head too fast, regretting it when his world went topsy-turvy for a few seconds.
When his vision cleared, Steve’s mouth dropped open upon seeing himself walk out of the elevator.
The copy of himself walked over to the couch where Steve was laid out, giving him a cursory look-over and a raised eyebrow that just looked odd on his face (but the gesture was pretty damn familiar on the face Steve was apparently wearing). “I’ve gotta say, I don’t look like how I usually do.”
“It’s been said that if you were to meet yourself without mirrors or photographs, you wouldn’t recognize yourself,” Ms. Potts said.
Steve gaped as Stark (because who else was it?) frowned down at him. “I need to sleep more.”
“That’s what I’ve been telling you for the last so many years,” Ms. Potts said dryly.
“So who is it?” Stark asked, turning his back and walking over to a mini-fridge.
Ms. Potts answered before Steve could, “Steve Rogers.”
“Hallelujah,” Stark said, ripping open a yogurt. He looked at Steve. “Why were you out without a phone? What kind of genius does that in the twenty-first century?”
He didn’t give Steve a chance to answer. “That’s not important now. We need to figure out what happened beyond ‘oh, it’s magic’“—he wiggled his fingers—“and find a way to reverse it.” He looked at Ms. Potts. “Where’s Bruce?”
“Wasn’t he with you?” She waved to Steve.
“He said you wanted him to sign stuff!” Stark looked injured (Steve had never realized how potent his face was when it came to looking hurt).
“I had nothing for him,” Ms. Potts said. “He might’ve forgotten. You do it often enough.”
Stark shot Steve a not-so-surreptitious look. “We had plans.”
“Dr. Banner is currently unconscious in his lab,” a strange voice said, making Steve jump and press himself into the cushions. “He does not look green.”
Stark blinked, spoon in his mouth. “Unconscious?”
“Indeed, sir.”
“Well, crap.” Stark frowned, tossing the yogurt container out of view. “Get me down there, JARVIS.”
“What’s going on?” Steve demanded. It was surreal hearing Stark’s voice coming from his lips.
“Found your voice now, eh?” Stark gave him a wry grin. “How you feeling?” His eyes were too knowing.
Steve narrowed his own, setting his jaw obstinately. “Fine.” He was not letting Stark know that his chest was on fire, he couldn’t breathe properly, and his head was hurting. It would pass eventually, and he’d never been one to complain.
“Okay.” Stark shrugged, grabbing a banana and heading to the elevator. “Then stay up here while I get Bruce. We’ll be back quickly.”
“Tony, are you sure?” Ms. Potts asked.
“I’m the one with the codes, Pepper.”
“We’ll be down if there’s any trouble at all,” Steve said firmly (it was much more threatening than he would’ve figured with Stark’s voice).
“Whatever suits you, Rogers,” Stark said, stepping inside the elevator and giving him a smooth grin that was too out of place on his face.
His heart pounding painfully at their brief interaction, Steve looked over at Ms. Potts, who was just beginning to look like someone had hit her over the head with a sledgehammer. “Are you all right, ma’am?”
Ms. Potts blinked disconcertedly, glancing over at Steve in trepidation. “It’s really odd to see Tony’s face addressing me so formally.”
“Try being inside him,” Steve said dryly (that tone was unsurprisingly well suited for this voice).
“Point,” Ms. Potts said. “You should call me Pepper, Captain. I have a feeling we’ll be getting to know each other quite well.”
“Then call me Steve.”
Pepper inclined her head. “To answer your question, Steve, we don’t know. Tony called me about ten minutes ago to let me know what had happened, and I found you in the elevator several minutes before that.”
Steve wondered for all of a second how Tony had called Pepper until realizing that the man had probably bought a phone using Steve’s debit card.
“That voice who spoke earlier,” Steve said instead, “who is he?”
Pepper’s lips quirked into a smile.”That’s JARVIS, Tony’s butler. He’s an artificial intelligence,” she clarified. “Tony can tell you more than I can about him.”
Steve wasn’t even surprised anymore. Tony was a genius, so it was no wonder that he could make an intelligent computer.
He ran fingers over the unfamiliar feel of hair on his face, wondering how long he would have to stay in this body (his heart skipped a painful beat). He took a breath, wincing slightly when the slight expansion of his lungs intensified the pain in his chest. The headache had still not gone, and the pain in his chest hadn’t abated at all. Steve was beginning to wonder if this wasn’t the norm for Stark.
Pepper’s strange face had him notice that he was unconsciously tapping his fingers against a glass case in his chest. He looked down, unnerved to see the glow of that arc reactor. Forcing his hand down before it continued a tic that wasn’t even Steve’s, he wondered what else had changed.
And if Banner would be himself.
The fact that Rogers was in his body was oddly comforting for Tony. At least his body would be in good hands considering that Rogers was the epitome of responsible. He couldn’t say the same for Rogers’s body, but at least it wasn’t as breakable as a normal human’s.
Smirking to himself, Tony walked out of the elevator once the doors opened and headed towards Bruce’s lab. The lab itself was partitioned off from the elevator by glass in case of anything dangerous happening – like poison gas – but Tony could instantly see Bruce’s feet poking out from behind a table, and it made him type in his access code just a little bit faster. He shot a glance to the door off to the side that led to the Hulk room Bruce had insisted on before agreeing to stay. Hopefully it wouldn’t be needed, but the option was there.
Crouching down besides Bruce and marveling at the limberness of Rogers’s body, Tony rested a gentle hand on Bruce’s shoulder, shaking him lightly. He kept a mental note on the amount of strength he used, not wanting to hurt his friend.
“Bruce?” he asked quietly.
“His heart rate is increasing, sir,” JARVIS cautioned.
“Got it.” Tony carefully peeled an eyelid back, not at all reassured when he saw the faintest hints of green in the irises. If Hulk got loose in here, Bruce would have some serious issues.
“Bruce, buddy, are you in there?” Tony tried again. “It’s me. Not Rogers, I mean, but Tony. Bit of a story there, but I think it would be better told if you were awake, right?”
“Sir,” JARVIS warned.
“Shit,” Tony muttered, seeing Bruce throw his head back and forth and mutter under his breath. It took him a beat too long to make his decision.
It also took him too long to remember he had super strength and could easily carry Bruce instead of half dragging him into the Hulk room.
Without a moment’s hesitation, Tony smoothly lifted Bruce into a fireman’s carry, quickly went over to the door to key in his access code, and hurried into the hallway leading to the actual room itself.
It was based on the cage S.H.I.E.L.D. had built, but it was more open and had things in it for Hulk to occupy himself with. It was also equipped with a gas that could knock Hulk out if need be.
Tony opened the door to the room and closed it behind him, setting Bruce down on the cot before hastily backing up to give the other guy some room.
“Lock down, JARVIS,” Tony said, ready to leave if he absolutely had to. This wasn’t his body after all.
“As you wish, sir,” JARVIS said, sounding a bit disapproving of his lifestyle choices.
Bruce’s muttering had turned into thrashing and growling by now, and his skin was taking on a green hue. The seams of his shirt were tearing apart, bulging with the increased mass of turning into Hulk. His pants remained safe, courtesy of a new material Tony had made for Hulk-outs.
With a loud roar, Bruce’s small body exploded into Hulk’s enormous one. The big guy blinked, shaking his head; his mouth curled into a snarl. He was about to smash his fist into the floor when Tony decided to intervene.
“Whoa, easy there.” His voice instantly attracted Hulk’s attention.
Hulk’s green eyes snapped to Tony’s, and his eyes narrowed. That reminded Tony that Hulk had no clue what had happened.
“It’s all right,” Tony said, keeping his voice calm. “It’s me – Tony. Metal Man?” Hulk’s preferred nickname for him was rather childish, but if it would work Tony would use it.
Hulk huffed, the gesture telling enough of what he thought of that claim.
“No, really, I am.” Tony put his hands up to show he was unarmed.
“Different,” Hulk grunted.
“I know,” Tony said. “I wanted to talk to Bruce about that. I switched with Steve Rogers.” He slowly pointed to his chest. “This body.”
He heard Pepper and Rogers rush into the room, and he flicked his eyes upward in silent reprimand.
“Tony!” Pepper hissed in alarm.
“Don’t come in,” Tony said sharply, his tone still calm. “I’ve got it.”
Hulk’s gaze was fixed on Tony’s actual body.
“That’s Rogers,” Tony said, getting Hulk’s attention again. “He’s me right now. Do you remember him?”
“Hulk smash,” Hulk grunted, lips curling into a grin.
“That’s right.” Tony grinned back.
Hulk loomed closer, eyes fixed on Tony’s face. “Not scared?”
“Nope.” Tony’s grin softened into a smile. He stretched his hand out. “We good, big guy?”
Hulk’s large hand extended, too, and it wrapped itself around Tony’s hand with a gentleness not usually used. Tony heard repressed gasps from Pepper and Rogers that he ignored.
“Good,” Hulk grunted, shaking Tony’s entire arm once before letting go. He took one large step back, collapsing into a sitting position that shook the floor with minute vibrations.
“Okay, great.” Tony clapped once before letting his hands drop to his sides. “So I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind letting Bruce out? Because we’re gonna need him with this.”
Hulk wrinkled his nose. “Not here.”
Tony paused, brow furrowing. “Could you clarify? Do you mean he’s unconscious? Or swapped out like us?” He gestured between Rogers and himself.
“Not here,” Hulk repeated, scowling blackly. “Gone. New man scared.”
“Shit,” Rogers said from behind Tony.
Tony allowed himself a second to be surprised at the sound of Rogers swearing without a moment’s hesitation. Then he refocused on Hulk. “You think you can let the new guy out? We’ll need to find out who it is. I know you probably want Bruce back.”
“Scared,” Hulk insisted.
“I know he is,” Tony said, “but we can help with that. If it doesn’t work out, you can swap again.”
“Tony,” Rogers hissed disapprovingly.
Tony flapped a hand in his direction, not bothering to look over. “Trust me,” he said, looking Hulk in the eye. “We’re going to get Bruce back where he belongs, but we’ll need the new guy’s help for that.”
Hulk stared Tony down for a long minute. Then, finally, he snorted once and closed his eyes.
Tony waited as his large green form turned pinker and smaller, gradually shifting to the familiar form of Bruce Banner – though it wasn’t exactly Bruce anymore, was it…
Waving to the cameras to let JARVIS know that he could let the others in, Tony went over to the unknown person’s side and shook him by the shoulder. It could be anyone, but if Tony had to guess it was probably someone from the Avengers. It just seemed like Loki’s style.
The thought had him glancing at an approaching Rogers. He had yet to mention who he suspected – knew – was the cause of this body swap thing, but that could wait until they figured out who else had been affected.
“Yo, new guy,” Tony said, bopping Bruce’s body on the nose. “Wake up.”
“Tony,” Rogers sighed, the exasperated tone sounding odd with Tony’s voice.
“Rogers,” Tony mimicked, imitating his tone but carrying it much better. He looked up, raising an eyebrow. “Got something to say?”
Rogers looked deeply disapproving, his eyebrows set in a firm line that made Tony’s body’s face look rather mad. “You could’ve gotten hurt,” he said.
“I didn’t,” Tony said casually, glancing back down at Bruce’s body, which was now beginning to show signs of waking up. “I knew he wouldn’t hurt me. We’ve been working with the big guy for a while now.”
“You don’t look like yourself,” Rogers pointed out.
“I talk like myself,” Tony fired back, sitting back on his heels as Bruce’s body’s eyes snapped open far too fast for anyone normal.
“What the fuck?” Bruce’s body said. The crass words and the tone sounded completely wrong coming from the usually mild-mannered doctor. His eyes snapped over to Tony, and widened in confusion. “Captain?”
“Sorry, peach,” Tony said. “That’ll be him you’re looking for.” He jabbed a thumb back at Rogers. “Who are you?”
Bruce’s face now looked thoroughly perplexed, and he sat up, wariness etched in every muscle. “Hawkeye,” he answered cautiously.
“Oh snap.” Tony made a clicking sound with his tongue. “JARVIS, you got that?”
“Indeed, sir. I am already accessing S.H.I.E.L.D.’s mainframe in search for Agent Barton’s body.”
“Good man.”
“What’s going on?” the now-identified Barton demanded. His eyes widened, hands flying to his throat. “What’s wrong with my voice?” It was now hilariously high-pitched.
“Would you like a mirror?” Pepper asked politely, holding a handy compact mirror over Tony’s shoulder.
Barton looked over into it, flinching when he caught sight of his reflection. “What the fuck! I’m Banner?”
“Yep.” Tony patted him on the knee, caught the death glare Barton shot his way, and retracted his hand. “And you might want to calm down there before the big guy comes out again.”
“Oh shit.” Barton paled drastically, eyes squeezing shut. “I…I can feel him.”
“Don’t worry,” Tony said. “He won’t cause any problems if you remain relatively calm and we find Bruce, who’s probably in your body right now. Think you can help us out with the location?”
“The Helicarrier,” Barton responded promptly, sounding rather dazed. “Natasha was there, too.”
“I have located them, sir,” JARVIS said. “S.H.I.E.L.D. is rather perplexed as both of them have yet to regain consciousness.”
“Contact them and let them know we’ll be up as soon as we get this sorted out,” Tony said.
Barton sounded notably more composed as he said, “I’m gonna take a wild shot and say that’s you, Stark.”
“You’d be right,” Tony said, smirking.
“And that’s the Captain?” Barton asked, pointing to Rogers.
“Hi,” Rogers said dryly.
Barton stroked the rough stubble of his new face, grimacing slightly. “This is so fucking weird,” he muttered, making to stand. He accepted Tony’s helping hand, wincing as he was pulled upright. “Ugh, God. Is this how Banner feels whenever he turns back?” He looked down, frowning. “My pants are surprisingly in one piece.”
“The wonders of stretchy fabric,” Tony said, patting him on the shoulder. “Why don’t we get you a shirt and then we’ll be off to HQ?”
“Sounds good,” Rogers said before Barton could. “I’d like to be back to normal now.”
Tony shot him a knowing look. “Missing the appetite? I’ve gotta say that you eat a lot.”
“I’ll make sure nothing pressing comes up,” Pepper said, squeezing Tony’s very muscular shoulder. “You do what you have to in order to figure this out. Let me know if you need anything, all right?”
“I will,” Tony promised, smiling at her. He almost leaned in to give her a kiss on the cheek, but remembered that using someone else’s body for that might not be considered proper. So he settled for very lightly squeezing her fingers. Time was that he would have gone for the mouth, but he’d lost that right months ago.
His stomach chose that moment to growl angrily, obviously done with the yogurt and banana Tony had fed it.
“I suppose this is the part where I mention that you’re going to need a lot more food?” Rogers said, grinning. “That little bit you had before wasn’t enough.”
“Speaking of food,” Barton said, “when was the last time Banner ate? Or slept? I’m feeling a bit off.”
“Er…” Considering Tony could be just as bad, he had no idea. He looked up at JARVIS for help.
“Forty-eight hours ago,” JARVIS said without prompting. “Might I advise some tea before you leave? Dr. Banner finds it most soothing.”
“Ten minutes,” Pepper said. “Then go before something bad happens that will inevitably be blamed on you.”
“Hey!” Tony cried indignantly.
“She’s got a point,” Barton said. “Ninety percent of what happens somehow gets pinned on you in S.H.I.E.L.D. paperwork, including the times the coffee machines don’t work.”
“That doesn’t seem right,” Rogers said, sounding perturbed.
“People love to hate me,” Tony said wryly.
Barton blinked, squinting as he glanced askance at Tony. “So fucking weird,” he muttered again.
Given that S.H.I.E.L.D. was really worried about their unconscious assassins-slash-agents, the Quinjet they sent to pick them up arrived quickly and carted them to the Helicarrier even faster. Tony managed to keep a lid on his snarkiness and pass as Rogers with only a few strange looks, while Barton just twiddled his thumbs and Rogers glared at everyone in his pitiful attempt at being Tony.
They were greeted on the Helicarrier deck by Fury and his deputy director Maria Hill, and they headed inside out of the cold, thin air before saying anything.
“Do I want to know how you found out?” Fury asked, glaring at Rogers.
“It’s quite a story,” Rogers answered evenly. “Maybe we could see the others first?”
The lack of a joke had Fury narrowing his eye in suspicion, but Tony clearing his throat and looking officially disapproving had Fury bustling them along in no time. Definitely an advantage of wearing Captain America’s face, but Tony dearly wished he could mouth off now, although it would be okay to do so once they were in the same room as Romanov’s and Barton’s bodies.
“They just dropped,” Fury said once they were outside the door. “They’ve been coming close to consciousness in the last several minutes.”
“Then we’ll be there when they wake,” Tony said, opening the door and stepping through.
“Oh, thank God,” Barton blurted out upon landing eyes on his unharmed body.
Fury and Hill looked at him strangely.
“They’re unhurt?” Barton looked unsure of himself.
“They are,” Hill confirmed, eyeing him suspiciously.
Tony walked over to Barton’s body, where presumably Bruce was now. He stared down at him, but didn’t have to wait long before Bruce shook his head, groaned, and opened his eyes, squinting in the bright lights.
“Captain?” he asked fuzzily. “Is there a reason you’re here?”
“By the Norns!” Romanov’s voice came, sounding startled. “I am female!”
That answered that question.
“Thor?” Rogers asked tentatively.
“Yes, indeed!” Thor’s formal speech patterns sounded ridiculous in Natasha’s voice. “It is good to see you, Anthony.”
For his part, Bruce stared down at his hands and back up at Tony. “Who am I?” He sounded remarkably calm.
“You’re me,” Barton said, appearing at Tony’s shoulder.
“Yes, that’s quite clear,” Bruce said, squinting up at his body. “But I don’t know who you are.”
“Clint,” Barton said. “The guy who shoots stuff.”
“What the hell is going on here?” Fury shouted, sounding absolutely furious.
“Director!” Thor boomed, though it wasn’t very loud. “Where is my body?”
Fury looked like he was getting a migraine. “Thor?”
“Verily.”
Hill glanced at Bruce. “Dr. Banner?”
“Hi.” Bruce smiled wanly. “This is a first.”
“Hawkeye here,” Barton said. “He and I switched bodies.”
“And you two?” Fury demanded, glancing between Tony and Rogers.
“Yo,” Tony said. “Whassup.”
“Tony,” Rogers sighed.
“Are you telling me that none of you are in the right bodies?”
“Since we’re short one because Romanov’s wherever Thor’s body is,” Tony said, “I’m gonna jump the gun and say yes. Thor, where were you before?”
“I was in New Mexico,” Thor said. “Jane must be concerned.”
“She’s probably already awake,” Tony said, “what with being in a god’s body. I woke up before the Captain there.”
“Call her,” Fury ordered Hill. “We need to get this straightened out.”
Thor swept his blankets off and stood, peering down his new body. Romanov had been wearing casual clothes, but they were flattering enough that nothing was left to the imagination. She carried purple off very well.
“Did you have any problems?” Bruce asked Barton.
“With the other guy?” Barton shrugged, looking like he was searching for words.
“It worked out,” Tony said before Barton could put his foot in his mouth. “He knew what was going on before we did.”
“No one’s pissing anyone off,” Fury snapped.
“I didn’t say anything,” Tony objected.
“I like this,” Thor proclaimed, bouncing. “It reminds me of when Loki and I dressed as maidens to trick the Frost Giants.”
Everyone was silent, absorbing the implications of that statement.
“I did not need to know that,” Tony said finally.
“Blackmail,” Barton said with vindictive glee.
“Loki cares not for blackmail,” Thor said. “He shifts often into the shape of a woman.”
“Really?” Bruce sounded fascinated.
“It has served many uses over the years,” Thor confirmed.
“That’s lovely,” Fury said. “Now why don’t we pull ourselves together – don’t, Stark – and figure out how to fix this?”
“How did it happen?” Rogers wondered, fingers tapping away at the arc reactor. It was a tic Tony indulged in when by himself; he was far too self-conscious to do it in public. But Rogers apparently wasn’t aware enough of his new body to realize he was doing it.
“The million dollar question, isn’t it?” Tony asked, not feeling at all guilty for withholding the statement “It was Loki.” He was going to wait for Romanov and another room before saying anything of the sort.
It would probably result in something painful if anyone found out that he’d known about it from the beginning but never said anything to anyone, but like hell was he going to say that Loki had tricked him and gotten them all into this mess in the first place. Because it was Tony’s fault here; if Loki hadn’t found him and done something – no wait. If not Tony, then Loki would have found someone else and pulled this same shit.
Yeah. There.
Tony was definitely well-adjusted and not blaming himself for every single misfortune. So it wasn’t his fault that this had happened; he was just the unlucky schmuck who got shafted this time.
A hard poke in his unusually meaty bicep had him jolting out of his thoughts and shooting a glare at the person who’d done it. Rogers looked faintly perturbed to be on the receiving end of a glare from his own face, but he recovered admirably quickly to fold his arms across his chest and return it with a pinched look on his face that made it look constipated.
If that was how Tony normally looked when angry, he was never doing so again.
“I asked,” Rogers said slowly, evidently repeating what he’d been saying while Tony was lost in his thoughts, “if you’d seen anything weird going on. Anything that could explain something like this happening.”
Welllll, Loki had snuck into the elevator with him, but Tony wasn’t going to tell him that. Not now anyway. “Nope.” He popped the ‘p,’ smiling brightly.
“Wowww,” Barton whistled lowly, squinting at Tony. “That’s quite a smile you got there, Cap.”
Rogers flushed, eyes skittering to a corner of the room and refusing to meet anyone’s eyes. His shoulders hunched slightly, his fingers coming up to tap against the arc reactor casing in an uneven staccato beat.
There was a reason Tony had squashed all his blushing impulses, and this was why.
“Oh my God, you’re blushing.” Barton sounded gleeful. “I’ve never seen Stark blush before.”
“There’s a reason for that,” Tony snapped, waving a dismissive hand and frowning as his stomach made its displeasure known. Ugh, again? “Anyone got a granola bar or something?”
Hill rolled her eyes but said nothing, only reaching into her pouch and pulling out what looked to be a protein bar and handing it over.
“I shouldn’t worry about poison, should I?” Tony asked, waving the little bar around.
“She wouldn’t poison herself,” Rogers protested, looking absolutely scandalized. It was all Tony could do to stop himself from telling him to please not give him any more frown lines.
“As lovely as it is to see you all getting along,” Fury said, sounding unimpressed, “why don’t we save the theatrics for after we get Agent Romanov back?”
“I would prefer to see my body in good health,” Thor said, using the reflection of the windows to peer at his new visage. He squinted slightly, rubbing a thumb under his jawline.
“So are we doing it here or what?” Tony asked Fury, raising his eyebrows pointedly as he took a large bite of the protein bar. A second later he had to resist spitting it out. Ugh, what did they put in that? Cement?
“Let’s not tempt fate,” Fury said dryly, giving Barton a wary look before he went over to a screen and turned it on.
Still chewing through the disgusting protein bar, Tony turned to Rogers. “How do you manage the appetite?”
Rogers’s mouth was twisted slightly, and he took a moment to breathe, wincing, before he answered. “Just used to it.”
Tony didn’t say anything else, eyes sweeping over Rogers’s form. It was so odd seeing himself stand there, though it was pretty clear that it wasn’t him standing there upon closer inspection. Tony had gotten used to the pain of the arc reactor and the limitations it put on his breathing; Rogers evidently was not used to it, and it showed in the way his shoulders remained slightly hunched over and his too-shallow breathing and the lines of pain around his eyes. Tony would have to give him some advice sooner or later, but he’d rather do it later because if he did it now, then everyone would know.
And Tony didn’t need anyone’s pity.
So he turned away from Rogers and to where Fury had been put through to a rather frazzled Jane Foster, the physical body of Thor hovering in the background and looking as implacable as Romanov usually did.
“She woke up about an hour ago like this,” Foster was telling Fury. “It took us a little bit of time to figure out what had happened.” She looked faintly embarrassed as she said this, and Tony wondered what they had gotten up to – maybe some kissing? “But she said to wait until we got your call, and I didn’t have your number to begin with,” she added irritably, scowling now.
“We change numbers,” Fury answered calmly. “Agent Romanov, are you in good condition to travel?”
Romanov came up to stand right by Foster. “Yes. Although someone will have to pick up Thor’s hammer; I can’t lift it.” It was startling hearing Romanov’s cadences and accent in Thor’s deep voice; Tony could see Bruce furrowing his brow in curiosity, although in Barton’s body it just looked like he was getting mad.
“Not to worry,” Thor reassured her, smiling gently. It looked really strange on Romanov’s face. “I can call for her from here.”
“And have a hammer flying through the air?” Fury waved a dismissive hand. “You’re going there in person to get it; we don’t need more attention as is, and a magical hammer soaring through the skies and taking out planes is going to attract it.”
“I would not destroy any of your aircrafts,” Thor protested indignantly.
“There’s a Quinjet prepped to go,” Hill told Thor unsympathetically. “They’re waiting on you.”
Thor seemed like he wanted to roll his eyes but refrained. “Very well,” he conceded, nodding at Fury. Looking down at the screen, he smiled gently at Foster. “I shall see you momentarily, Jane.” Then, with a sweep that couldn’t have been more regal than if he had an actual cape, Thor departed the room with Hill in tow.
Tony took a moment to choke down the last of his protein bar while Fury closed the call and Rogers and everyone else just sat around looking pretty.
“How long do you think it’ll take you to fix this?” Rogers asked, looking up from his feet.
It took Tony a moment to realize that Rogers was talking to him, and that simultaneously puzzled and warmed him from the inside out. “No idea,” he answered truthfully. He knew it had been Loki, and that meant magic was involved in this, but other than that he hadn’t the faintest idea what to do.
“You said it was magic,” Rogers persisted.
“Yeah, but that doesn’t mean I know how it works.” Tony made a face that said exactly what he thought of the affair. He wadded up the wrapper he was still holding and threw it towards the trash can, but he overestimated the amount of strength to use and it hit the rim, bowling the entire thing over and spilling the contents on the floor.
Bruce hid his face in his hands, Barton sighed and flopped back dramatically, Rogers frowned and his mouth did a funny twitching thing that Tony almost recognized as a smile, and Fury just looked completely aggrieved.
“I meant to do that,” Tony offered a moment later, feeling his cheeks warm slightly. He took a breath and thought about something else – namely Fury in a bathing suit. The warmth in his cheeks faded as quickly as it had come, and he sighed in relief.
“How’d you do that?” Rogers blurted out, blinking.
Tony feigned ignorance. “Throw something? It’s pretty easy, Cap; most of the power comes from the wrist and not the elbow so what you really want to do is use your arm as a fulcrum and—”
“No physics,” Barton groaned from the bed. “Just no.”
Bruce moved as if to push his glasses up his nose, but his finger slid across bare skin instead. Twitching slightly, he instead moved to rubbing his forehead, a nervous tic he had picked up from Tony two days into their partnership in the tower.
“I know how to throw things,” Rogers said indignantly, straightening up.
“Good for you,” Tony responded, nodding once.
Rogers narrowed his eyes, opened his mouth as if to say something else, but then shut it with an audible clack of teeth that almost had Tony wincing because those were his teeth damn it. Then, shaking his head, Rogers inhaled deeply through his nose, and promptly let it out in an anguished wheeze.
Of course Bruce noticed. “Captain?”
“I’m fine,” Rogers said rather breathlessly, shaking his head as Bruce made to go to him. “Just…got a bit dizzy there. I don’t think this body’s eaten lately.”
“If it’s anything like the last time this body ate,” Barton said to the ceiling, “then that was probably two days ago.”
“I’m pretty sure I had a doughnut sometime in that time frame,” Tony protested.
“The height of nutrition,” Fury remarked dryly. “Get something to eat, Rogers. We’ll pick this up when Thor and Romanov return. There’s nothing we can do about this problem now.”
“And while you’re at it,” Tony said, refusing to feel the slightest bit guilty about what Rogers was going through now, “could you get something for me, too?” His stomach was still grumbling.
Fury looked between Rogers and Tony and nodded. “Both of you go and grab lunch from the cafeteria.” He ignored Tony’s noise of indignation. “Stark, I know you know where it is so don’t give me that bullshit. I advise against the meatloaf; you never know what they put into that.”
And before Tony could protest, Rogers had grabbed him by the waist, whirled him around, and then pushed him out.
The fact that he did all this while in Tony’s body was quite a feat; Tony made a mental note to ask him about it later.
For now he really should get food before Rogers’s body staged a full-scale rebellion.
Steve really didn’t want to say anything, but Stark’s body was in terrible shape. His headache hadn’t gotten any better since arriving on the Helicarrier, and the pulsing pain in his chest hadn’t decreased either. He would manage to forget about it for a short time, his senses becoming somewhat desensitized to it, but then he’d do something wrong (like move weirdly or breathe too deeply) and then his ribs would hurt and he’d be acutely reminded of the fact that he had a giant metal obstruction in his chest.
The not-breathing part was something he could deal with after having grown up with acute asthma, and so was the pain because of his numerous other physical ailments. But Steve hadn’t missed them after he’d gotten the serum, and he’d just gotten used being able to breathe like a normal human being and move without fear of being hurt, so this was really pissing him off.
And he had the faint suspicion that the headache he was nursing was thanks to a chronic lack of oxygen since he couldn’t breathe properly.
He winced again as he tried to pull in too deep a breath, his lungs unable to expand properly with the arc reactor sitting on top of them. Jesus, how did Stark manage this day in and day out?
Steve shot Stark a glance, still extremely off put by seeing his own body in front of him. Stark wasn’t even looking at him right now, instead frowning slightly and chewing on his bottom lip, a nervous tic that Steve had (so muscle memory transferred over).
Taking a small breath and letting it out slowly, Steve rubbed a hand through his hair, ruffling it up and pressing down on his scalp as he did. The pressure did nothing to alleviate his headache, and Steve made a mental note to look for some headache pills when he could. They would at least have an effect on him now, so why not use them?
Or maybe they’d figure out this whole thing quickly and Steve would be back in his body before he even needed to bother with anything of the sort (yeah, right, when was his luck ever so good?).
All else aside, Steve did need to get something to eat. His stomach had been grumbling rather unpleasantly, and he had the faint feeling that was associated with low blood sugar (something he was now uncomfortably familiar with thanks to his higher metabolism).
“Think you can act like me long enough to put off suspicion?” Stark asked him out of the blue.
Steve blinked. “Wha – yeah. Yeah, I can.” He nodded once in response to Stark’s rather skeptical eyebrow raise. “Yes,” he added more firmly.
“This should be fun,” Stark muttered, lips twitching into a small grin before it faded and his face blanked out (Steve didn’t look like that all the time, did he?).
“Act normal,” Steve hissed, poking him in the side. Stark flinched back from it, hand slapping Steve’s away (shit, he should’ve remembered his reflexes). He withdrew his hand, flexing the smarting fingers and making a mental note to avoid startling Stark again (he still refused to apologize).
Stark didn’t apologize either, simply walking into the cafeteria and picking up a tray. Steve followed quickly, doing his best to appear completely and utterly bored like he assumed Stark would act.
“Add some twitching, will you,” Stark muttered while he got some pasta from the grim-faced man spooning it out. He smiled brightly at the man, who only blinked in response.
Steve just rolled his eyes, plastering the smarmiest grin he could muster on his face as he got his own serving of pasta. This time the man did react, only to give Steve a rather lascivious wink.
Stark made a strange noise that sounded rather like a dying cat from next to Steve and bailed the moment he got past the suspicious looking meatloaf and grabbed a dessert. He headed to an empty table far away from any other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and sat down, taking a large forkful of cheesy pasta and stuffing it into his mouth as Steve sat down more leisurely.
“You’re not doing any flirting while in my body,” Stark said aggressively, stabbing a piece of broccoli like he wanted to murder it.
“You always flirt,” Steve pointed out, twirling a strand of spaghetti (why was there a spaghetti strand in a bowl of fettuccine pasta?) on his fork. “Wouldn’t it seem weird if I don’t?”
After a brief period of silence, Stark made a pained face and a huffing sound, grabbing the salt and showering it over his food. “Then don’t hook up with anyone.”
“I wouldn’t,” Steve protested indignantly. “This isn’t my body.” He speared a carrot and immediately regretted popping it into his mouth when it turned out it had all the consistency of paper and tasted like cardboard. “Shouldn’t I be asking you that?” he asked after managing to swallow the vile thing.
Stark had very wisely moved the carrots to the edge of his plate after watching Steve choke on his (shouldn’t he be more concerned with Steve potentially choking to death in his body?). “Despite what some people may think, I do have a modicum of decency in me,” he said dismissively, cutting the fried fish into smaller pieces. “Your virtue is safe with me.”
“I feel really reassured now,” Steve said. It was only a second later that he realized that yes, he was reassured. Despite his crass nature, Stark was inherently good, and Steve could trust him. Any man who had befriended the Hulk was doubtlessly trustworthy, and Steve had fought alongside Stark without trouble.
Stark was giving him an amused look, no doubt understanding exactly what was going through Steve’s mind because he knew his body better than Steve. All Steve did was give him an unimpressed look and refocus on his food.
“So what’ve you been doing post-Chitauri?” Stark asked a few minutes later.
Avoiding Stark because he don’t know how to deal with their confusing relationship. He did feel rather guilty about giving him the slip every time he’d seen Stark pop up in the vicinity.
Steve shrugged, only mildly confused at the question given that Stark knew full well what Steve had been doing, especially if he’d been practically stalking him for whatever reason. “Volunteering, researching stuff…” He was rather ashamed to admit that he hadn’t actually done all that much, still a bit overwhelmed at the transition from his time to now. It wasn’t like the technology was all that confusing to him anymore, but it was the social changes and other little aspects that continued to overwhelm him.
More than anything, he was just so alone. Maybe he should have talked with Stark when he tried to get to Steve, but then he would have to deal with other things he wasn’t fully prepared to handle.
“How’s adjusting going?” Stark asked, actually sounding curious.
Steve shrugged again, looking down at the rather unpalatable fish and the disgusting carrot bits left on his plate. Then, because he really did want to talk about it (and why not Stark since he was here?), he said quietly, “Good mostly.” He gave a small half-smile. “It’s just…really weird.”
Stark had fixed him with a piercing look that was making Steve feel rather uncomfortable. “You having any problems?”
Steve picked at a tissue, chewing the inside of his mouth as he considered the question. He couldn’t really talk about anything here in the S.H.I.E.L.D. cafeteria, and he kind of just wanted to go back and see if Thor had come back with Romanov.
Stark hummed thoughtfully, polishing off the last of the yogurt he’d grabbed for dessert and stacking it on top of his plate. “I get it. We’re not going to stay here, though, if I have anything to say about it.”
“I’d hope not,” Steve said, rather thankful that he’d stopped for the meantime.
“I meant on the Helicarrier, but that also goes for getting back to where we should be,” Stark said, smirking. The sight of a smirk that Steve usually associated with Stark’s face (and only then in pictures and videos) was strange, but stranger still was the fact that the smirk seemed genuine. And Steve would know; he’d seen his own insincere smiles often enough while on that horrible USO tour.
Because he could, Steve smiled back, feeling his eyes crinkle at the corners (no wonder Stark had so many laugh lines). “That sounds good.” And he meant that in more ways than one.
It took about half an hour after Tony and Rogers left the cafeteria and the really bad food behind before Romanov and Thor came back, Thor carrying Mjölnir over his shoulder. It was really weird seeing Romanov’s smaller frame carry the hammer instead of Thor’s much larger one, but that was nothing compared to seeing Thor’s mannerisms in Romanov’s body and Romanov’s catlike grace in Thor’s much larger and bulkier body.
Not for the first time, Tony wondered if his own mannerisms were so apparent in Rogers’s body.
Probably. He had a lot of tics, especially if he didn’t pay attention.
But most of his usual tics seemed to have transferred over to Rogers, since he was the one twiddling with random objects and occasionally sticking things in his mouth, often without noticing that he was doing so until five minutes after the fact. And then he was adorably – no, not adorably, stop it, Stark – confused about how that pencil had gotten into his mouth.
Instead, Tony found himself able to sit still without the slightest inclination to fidget, although he occasionally found himself picking at his fingernails without thinking. The fact that Rogers was a guy who picked at his fingernails was either really adorable or mortifying depending on which way Tony looked at it.
And it wasn’t just Rogers and Tony. Barton ended up playing with Bruce’s glasses more often than not and one time almost poked himself in the eye because he wasn’t paying attention. Bruce didn’t blink as often as he should, and it was really disconcerting to be carrying on a conversation with a man who didn’t blink but just stared right at you.
Tony hadn’t had an opportunity to observe Thor and Romanov, but he had no doubt that the same thing was going on with them.
In any case, by the time Thor and Romanov joined them in an empty room that only contained the Avengers, Fury, Hill, a gigantic table, and a bunch of chairs, Tony was thoroughly sick of being on the Helicarrier and just wanted off. He also wanted out of Rogers’s body because watching the other man inside his body was hurting his soul; he was feeling guiltier and guiltier about not telling Rogers all the little tips and tricks he’d amassed over the last several years as to how to deal with a heavy arc reactor in his chest.
His new breathing patterns probably weren’t ingrained enough in his bodily habits for Rogers to unconsciously pick up on them, especially if he wasn’t concentrating on something. It seemed easier for him if he was talking with someone, since he wasn’t concentrating on breathing or moving, so Tony tried to involve him in the conversation with Bruce as much as he could. Rogers looked surprised at this, but didn’t hesitate and slipped relatively easily into the conversation, only occasionally stumbling over the subject matter when it became too technical.
The fact that Rogers was cute and smart should not have been as hot as it was. But it was probably mostly Tony’s own brain that was backing him up there, because Tony knew better than anyone how quickly his brain worked. And Rogers’s brain wasn’t anywhere as quick as his own; Tony had noticed that after losing his train of thought twice while talking with Bruce and Rogers. It was aggravating, but he could only hope that no one had noticed; Bruce seemed to be suffering the same problem if the way he was talking was any indicator because he kept trailing off and frowning as if trying to get his thoughts in order.
So the arrival of Thor and Romanov was entirely welcome, and they took their seats upon entering. It was pretty strange seeing Thor’s body next to Bruce’s and Romanov’s several chairs apart from everyone else’s. But it was nowhere near as weird as sitting next to his own body and with Barton’s on his right.
Fury took one look at the room on a whole before sighing and looking aggrieved. “Now that we’re all in the same room, why don’t we figure out what the hell happened?”
Arms folded across his chest, Tony chewed the inside of his mouth, stomach churning nervously. They were all in the same room, so… “Loki,” he said before anyone else could speak.
Thor frowned, mouth twisting unhappily in a way that looked foreign on Romanov’s face. “Do not speak ill of my brother because of what he did.”
“No, I mean it was Loki,” Tony insisted, feeling Fury glare holes in the side of his head.
“Impossible,” Thor protested. “Loki is in Asgard.”
“Funny, so I must have seen another black-haired green-eyed guy who speaks like a pretentious Norse god in my elevator this morning.” Tony raised an eyebrow.
“You couldn’t have told us this before?” Fury demanded angrily.
Tony shrugged, keeping a blank poker face on. “I didn’t want to say it more than once,” he said offhandedly. “‘Sides, all traces of Loki disappeared, so there’s nothing you could’ve done. Because magic,” he added, wiggling his fingers demonstratively. He thought he heard a snort from Rogers.
“Let’s not get into that,” Bruce interrupted, shooting Fury a look. He turned to Thor. “Can your brother do that?”
Thor didn’t respond immediately, brow furrowed thoughtfully. “Loki is well versed in the skills of magic,” he conceded eventually. “Even I do not know the full extent of his abilities, but a little trick such as this would not be beyond them.”
“Little?” Barton spluttered indignantly. “He body-swapped us! How is that little?”
“It is a small thing in Asgard,” Thor said mysteriously, not elaborating any further.
“So can it be reversed?” Fury asked, pinning Thor with a hard stare.
“Of course,” Thor said. “Nearly all magic can be reversed.”
“Then take them to Asgard and get it fixed,” Fury ordered much to nobody’s surprise.
Thor grimaced apologetically. “I am afraid it will not be that simple. If it was truly Loki’s work, then he is no longer in Asgard, and only Loki’s magic will reverse this spell. It is one of the caveats of magic,” he added.
“Oh fuck,” Tony groaned, rubbing his face in his hands. “So we’re stuck like this?”
“Until Loki’s spell runs its course or he decides to reverse it,” Thor confirmed.
“Knowing him, that’s never,” Tony muttered, face still buried in his hands and they weren’t even his hands.
“He has to have a point to this,” Romanov said thoughtfully. “He doesn’t seem the kind to play pointless pranks.”
“This is true,” Thor agreed slowly. “Loki has often played pranks – it is his nature as a trickster – but his pranks have always served some sort of purpose. But for the life of me, I cannot see what the purpose for this spell is.”
“See how the other side lives?” Barton suggested, making a face that looked really odd with Bruce’s features. “Isn’t that usually the point in all the body-swap stories out there?”
“The only body-swap story I’ve seen is the movie Freaky Friday,” Rogers said, confused. “Are there more?”
“So much more,” Barton assured him, grinning kind of crazily. “It’ll blow your mind.”
“I’d recommend not reading any of it,” Romanov said immediately, giving Barton a quelling look. “Most of it is probably porn.”
Rogers flushed deeply, and ugh. Now the entire room had seen what Tony’s body looked like when it was blushing.
Romanov peered at Rogers. “So that’s why you don’t blush.”
“I will ruin your credit scores,” Tony said incredibly mildly, “don’t think I won’t.”
“He definitely will,” Bruce said very helpfully, fixing everyone with a blank stare from Barton’s emotive face – which wasn’t at all emotive really.
“Do you think we can leave?” Rogers asked before it could turn into a full-on fight. “I think I want to scream into my pillow like a teenager.”
Rogers’s statement was surprising enough that Tony had hauled Bruce and Rogers out of their chairs and out of the room before anyone else reacted.
And even then Fury couldn’t keep them detained because Rogers really managed to make Tony’s face look pathetically adorable in a way that Tony had never really mastered except in the bedroom. Tony heard Barton whispering to Romanov that it was like a secret weapon; who knew Stark could be so adorable?
That was when Tony tuned out, not needing to hear more.
They made it back to his tower in the evening, S.H.I.E.L.D. detaining them for a bit longer just to be sure that there weren’t any negative ramifications from having all swapped bodies. They’d all rather impressively stonewalled the organization, only for Bruce to later tell everyone in the Quinjet that he expected a full gamut of tests done in the privacy of his lab in Stark Tower.
And his rather terrifying stare in Barton’s body quelled any arguments that would’ve risen.
Besides, Rogers had then said that it was probably a good idea to know what exactly was going to happen now that they were all in different bodies. Even Tony had to admit that he kinda wanted to know what was what.
But it was too late to do anything at the moment, so they just all convened in the penthouse for a few hours, milling about and generally looking rather uncomfortable. Pepper seemed rather taken aback at the sight by the time she finished up her work and joined them.
“I suppose it was a team thing then?” she asked Tony by the time she joined him on the couch.
“Yes,” Tony groaned, head resting against the back of the couch. He’d already gone and eaten another full meal, desperately needing the calories even though he’d done virtually nothing other than sit on his ass. Rogers’s metabolism sucked.
“So who’s who?” Pepper probably thought she was being discreet by peering at everyone, but it was painfully obvious.
“Bruce’s over there,” Tony said, gesturing to where Bruce was talking with Barton about keeping Hulk on a leash. “And Romanov’s in Thor.”
“Wow, really?” Pepper looked startled, twisting around to look at Romanov and Thor, both of whom were behind the bar and apparently trying to outdrink each other because that was a thing now. “I wouldn’t have pictured that.”
“She’s the only woman on a superhero team of men; there are only men for her to get swapped into,” Tony grumbled, sliding down further on the couch and leaning slightly into Rogers, who was sitting right next to Tony. “Speaking of which, we need more women.”
“They’re not there for you to ogle,” Rogers muttered under his breath, squinting down at the tablet Tony had given him when they’d arrived. He’d taken to the drawing app like a fish to water.
“That’s not it,” Tony said dismissively. “But women bring something else to the table that men don’t, and we could use that.”
“Learned this from experience, have you?” Pepper asked wryly.
“So much experience,” Tony agreed, recalling each and every single bright female scientist, businesswoman, engineer, etc. he’d met during his career.
“I’ll see what S.H.I.E.L.D. can do about that,” Rogers said after a moment, tapping against the screen with the pencil.
“We should totally do our own thing,” Tony said, smushing himself further into Rogers’s side to see what he was drawing. It seemed to be the view outside the windows. “Too much control from a governmental organization is never good.”
“That’s actually one of the best points he’s ever made,” Pepper informed a very amused Rogers.
“Shut up,” Tony muttered, shooting Pepper a peeved glare. “I have good points.”
“Only when you think about it,” Pepper said. “All the blackmail I’ve accumulated over the years clearly says otherwise.”
“She has no blackmail,” Tony told Rogers. “None at all. Ignore whatever she says.”
“That’s nice,” Pepper said in a dangerously sweet tone that had alarm bells ringing in Tony’s head. “Does that mean that I can show everyone those pictures I collected of you—”
Tony flailed threateningly, nearly smacking Pepper in the face as he straightened up. “Don’t you dare.”
“Not that it matters,” Pepper said, grinning rather evilly. “I think this episode has enough blackmail for the next ten years.”
“Rogers isn’t doing anything incriminating,” Tony pointed out.
“Not now,” Pepper said, still grinning.
“You’re not allowed to talk to him,” Tony told her. “I refuse to let you.”
“I might let her if you don’t start calling me Steve,” Rogers said mildly, mouth twitching slightly at the corners.
“Foul!” Thor shouted from the bar. “This drink is too sweet! Would you have me cheat?”
“Then call me Tony,” Tony said, only slightly taken aback at Rog – Steve’s sudden demand. He then promptly wanted to smack himself because Steve had been calling him Tony; he really hated this brain.
Steve very kindly didn’t point out that he’d pretty much already been doing that whenever he’d said Tony’s name. “Thanks,” he responded softly, smiling a sweet smile that seemed at odds on Tony’s face simply because he didn’t really smile like that.
Pepper made a strange sound that sounded a bit like a gasp, but when Tony turned to look questioningly at her, she’d recovered and was looking through something on her phone. Her lips were pressed together.
“I can move some of the meetings for this week around,” Pepper said before Tony could ask what was wrong, “but there’s a meeting with R&D that you need to go to next week that can’t be rescheduled. And if you’re not back to normal…” She looked helplessly between Steve and Tony.
“I’m sure we can get the Captain here trained up to act like me,” Tony said, squeezing Steve’s shoulder in camaraderie.
He apparently did it too tightly, because Steve ended up wincing and pulling away from him, saying, “Ease up, Tony.”
Tony did, mortified. “Sorry.”
Steve had a rather pained smile on his face and rolled his shoulder. Damn, Tony hoped he hadn’t injured his body’s shoulder; that would suck when he got back into it. “It’s okay,” he insisted, shaking his head. “Happened to me a lot after…after the procedure.” He had an uncomfortable look on his face that Tony distinctly recognized as being his “oh God, I’m in emotional pain and trying to hide it” mask.
He rushed to get it off. “And then you were on that tour – I’ve seen the tapes – and you’re not a half-bad actor actually”—it was a lie, but who cared?—“so I’m sure that you could totally pass as me if Loki’s spell hasn’t worn off before then.”
“Your body is highly resilient to this brew!” Thor was telling Romanov in a very loud voice.
“I’m not very good with science,” Steve said slowly.
“Not much science with R&D,” Tony said. “Just blather on about how incompetent they all are and you’ll be good.”
“I wish I could say don’t do that, but that’s actually true,” Pepper said long-sufferingly.
Steve actually looked appalled. “I can’t do that.”
“Yes, you can.” Tony almost went for the shoulder, reconsidered, and instead patted Steve on the hand. “You’ll learn all about being me before that point.”
“But the priority is getting you all sorted out,” Pepper said disapprovingly.
“Yes, that’s the priority,” Tony agreed, not looking back at her. He was too busy watching Steve stare at the hand on his own.
Before Tony or Steve could say anything else, there was a loud shattering noise from the vicinity of the bar and a triumphant cry of “Another!” from Thor.
Everyone stopped what they were doing to look over and see Thor completely flush with alcohol and rather hazy-eyed, clinging onto a rather smug-looking Romanov. She didn’t even look fazed after all the alcohol she’d doubtlessly consumed, which begged the question as to whether Asgardians could even get drunk on the alcohol of Earth.
“I think we should take this somewhere else,” Tony heard Barton saying, which was quickly followed Bruce’s agreement. The two left quickly afterwards.
“I’ll be heading off, too,” Pepper said, now watching Thor rhapsodize about something or another – it sounded like Romanov’s eyes, and wasn’t that narcissistic, “so why don’t you two do something about that.” She gestured with her phone towards Thor and Romanov and ruffled Tony’s hair before he could protest. Then she left without another word.
Tony was silent for a moment, watching as Romanov took Thor by the arm and carefully maneuvered them both out from behind the bar. “Should we?” he asked finally.
“I think she has it handled,” Steve said, both eyebrows raised.
“Yeah,” Tony conceded when Romanov and Thor were at the elevator so JARVIS could lead them to some bedrooms. “I suppose she does.”
By the time the elevator doors had closed on Romanov and Thor, Tony and Steve had fallen into a stilted silence, one which Tony didn’t know how to break.
Steve shifted from beside him, clearing his throat awkwardly. “Do you think we could talk?” he asked softly.
Tony knew exactly what he wanted to talk about. “I need a lot of alcohol for this.”
Steve’s lips curled into a small smile. “Alcohol doesn’t affect me – that body.” He gestured with a pen.
“Yeah, I know,” Tony sighed, rubbing his temples. “And I don’t think there’s any left thanks to Asgardian and Russian metabolisms.”
“We don’t have to talk,” Steve started, sounding so unsure that Tony wanted to rush to reassure him.
“No, we should,” Tony said, sighing again. “We really should. Come on. I’ll get us some coffee while we do it.”
“Okay,” Steve said quietly, turning the tablet off. “Where’s your kitchen?”
“This floor’s a lot bigger than what you’ve just seen at the moment,” Tony said, mustering up the ability to smirk at him.
“No kidding?” Steve smirked back, sounding extraordinarily pleased with himself at the comeback.
“Witty.” Tony nudged him slightly in reprimand, making sure to keep the strength toned down.
He led Steve to the kitchen, making a direct beeline for the coffee machine as he heard Steve pull a chair back and sit down. It was a bit late for coffee, and Steve’s body wouldn’t feel the caffeine anyway, but he knew his own body, and his body was probably suffering a caffeine headache after the day.
Tony was really asking for some pain after not having given Steve any coffee at all.
“You’ve got a headache, haven’t you?” Tony asked, unable to look back at Steve.
There was a short, surprised silence. “Yeah,” Steve said eventually.
“Caffeine headache,” Tony explained, taking down two mugs and also the milk and sugar that Steve might want. “You haven’t had any coffee, have you?”
“No.” Steve was silent again, and Tony chanced a glance over his shoulder to see Steve staring down at the tabletop. “I thought,” he started softly, “that it might’ve been something else.” His shoulders hunched tellingly, and Tony hid a wince.
“Could be,” Tony managed in an even tone, quieting the beeping of the machine. He didn’t bother with the milk and sugar, uncertain as to how Steve would take it. He liked it black and occasionally with milk if he wanted something sweeter, but he had no idea how Steve would take to his taste buds.
“How do you usually drink it?” Steve asked, thoughts evidently running along the same lines as Tony.
“Black,” Tony said truthfully, “but sometimes I take milk. You?”
“I don’t,” Steve answered, blowing across the top of the drink before chancing a sip. He made a strange face at the taste, eyebrows scrunching up. “Not as strong as I expected,” he judged.
“Shouldn’t be considering how often I drink it.” Tony took his own small sip, and then immediately choked when his taste buds burned in protest. “Oh Jesus.”
“Yeah, I think my taste buds are a bit stronger than average,” Steve said wryly, pouring some milk into his coffee.
“How do you manage spices?” Tony grimaced, dumping a spoonful of sugar and as much milk as he could into the mug without having it overflow.
“That depends on the spice,” Steve admitted, “but I can manage just about anything.”
Tony highly doubted that if the way the coffee had tasted was any indication, but he kept quiet, taste testing the coffee before putting in another spoonful of sugar.
He didn’t know how to start the discussion, and regret was already smoldering in his chest.
Steve was staring into his coffee, the blue light of the arc reactor casting shadows on his face that made him seem older. It was also pretty damn creepy from this end. “Is this how it always is for you?” he blurted out, eyes flying up to Tony’s.
Tony kept still, very carefully not squeezing the mug he was holding. “The pain, you mean?” he asked slowly, gently setting the mug down on the table so he wasn’t liable to shatter it in his hands. “It’s…you get used to it. I have,” he added when Steve didn’t look convinced.
“It hurts to breathe,” Steve said roughly, eyes pinched. “All the time.”
“There’s a certain trick to it,” Tony said, unconsciously taking a deeper breath and holding it for a few seconds. Just because he could. “Shallow. Don’t expand your rib cage. And stand straight; it gives you more leeway.” He tapped a finger against the ceramic of the mug. “There are meds you can take if gets too much,” he admitted. “I haven’t needed them for a while, but JARVIS knows where they are.”
Steve shook his head. “I can do this,” he insisted, and Tony was struck with the realization that this was the same man who had gone through the incredibly painful procedure to get the serum, and he’d succeeded.
“But you don’t need to.” Tony didn’t quite meet Steve’s eyes, keeping his gaze on the light of the reactor.
“I will.” Steve’s tone forbade further argument. “But…” He slowly straightened, taking that slow, careful deep breath that Tony recognized as his own. “I didn’t know,” he said eventually.
Tony offered a small shrug, drinking some coffee to avoid answering immediately. When he couldn’t get around it anymore, he confessed quietly, “No one did.”
“I won’t tell anyone if you don’t want me to,” Steve offered.
“That…” Tony nodded, ducking his head slightly to hide a swallow. “Thanks.”
“No problem.” The ease with which Steve said it really did make it seem like it was no problem for him to keep it quiet that Tony’s body was literally in pain every second of the day.
Tony took a breath, fingers itching to reach for something that wasn’t there. He settled for wrapping them around the now lukewarm coffee.
“Adjusting hasn’t been too hard,” Steve said suddenly, surprising Tony.
Tony’s head jerked up, his eyes meeting Steve’s. “Really?”
“Yeah.” Steve slowly circled a finger in the direction of the ceiling, still speaking. “The tech was easy enough for me to get used to; I really like the Internet. It’s helped a lot. But it’s more the…the people that keep catching me off guard.” He took a slow steady breath. “That’s what I’m having trouble with,” he admitted.
“I bet they’ve changed a lot,” Tony said, thinking about all the wars and civil rights movements that had taken place after Steve had gone down.
“Fundamentally, I think it’s the same.” Steve’s smile was rather hollow. “But it’s everything else… Flash and glamour and shine, and no one seems to care. And I…” He took another breath, ducking his head and voice dropping to a whisper that Tony’s new ears picked up easily. “I don’t have anyone,” he confessed. “Sometimes I turn and look for someone who isn’t there, and it hits me all over again that they’re all dead or moved on with their lives. I went to see Peggy; she keeps forgetting things – dementia.” His voice cracked halfway through, and he had to clear his throat. “And I – I couldn’t talk with the person S.H.I.E.L.D. gave me at the beginning; she didn’t understand. So I’m here, and I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. I…I’m just really…” He trailed off, unable to finish.
Tony heard the word that Steve couldn’t say: alone. And wasn’t that just the kicker? The man that most of America loved was one of the loneliest men in the country. The man that Tony had grown up looking up to as an inspirational model was just as lost and floundering as Tony.
Tony really didn’t know what to say. Emotional situations were not his forte, and nine times out of ten he put his foot in his mouth, and then everyone went away unhappy and hating the other person.
Hesitatingly, remembering what Pepper and Rhodey did when he was having a bad day, Tony reached out to touch the back of Steve’s hand, fingers gently brushing the skin. “You don’t have to be alone,” he said carefully, desperately floundering for something better to say than that. It sounded so pretentious, like Steve wanted to be alone. “I mean,” he continued hastily, “you’ve got people to talk to. If you want, that is.” He shrugged, trying to make the movement casual and probably failing. “I’m here.”Damn it, why’d he have to go and say that?
Thankfully Steve seemed oblivious to his inner confusion. “I know,” he said, smiling softly. “And thanks. I know…I know we didn’t get off on the right foot. And I’m sorry about that; it was partially my fault. I was wrong about everything I said to you.”
“You think I wasn’t?” Tony managed to crack a grin. “I was wrong, too. I’m not usually that mean.”
Steve was silent for a moment, head tilting forward in a slight nod. Then, “The room of people you called ‘ass-clowns’ will disagree with you.”
“They deserved that, and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying, Steve, lying,” Tony started indignantly, only to stop when he noticed Steve desperately trying to stifle his laughter. “You stop it,” he demanded.
“I can’t help it,” Steve choked out, shoulders shuddering in silent laughter. “You’re fun to mess with.”
Tony’s mouth dropped open in stunned shock. Who knew Steve Rogers had a wicked sense of humor? That definitely had not been in any of the movies or files he’d looked at. “You sure you want to do this?” he asked, voice low in warning.
Steve’s eyes were bright with laughter as he met Tony’s, teeth flashing in a grin. “So very sure.”
“Okay then.” Tony made a clicking sound with his tongue and sat back in his chair. “Okay,” he repeated, cackling inwardly as Steve’s eyes turned slightly wary.
“Nothing dangerous,” Steve warned.
“I just got this place fixed. You think I’ll wreck it again?” Tony protested.
“You wreck a lot of things,” Steve pointed out easily.
“Yeah, well, I’m gonna come in like a wrecking ball, and smash all that.” Tony gestured vaguely in Steve’s direction, mentally wincing at his reference.
Luckily Steve didn’t seem to have gotten up to date on that reference. “This is your body; please don’t wreck it.”
“I think I know the limitations of my body better than you,” Tony shot back, grinning widely. “And I know that you should probably go to sleep; I don’t know when I last slept.”
Steve glanced down in confusion at the coffee. “But the caffeine?”
“Too little of a dose considering how much I usually drink.” Tony stood, taking the mug away from Steve before he could protest. “So go on; JARVIS will show you to your bedroom. I’ll see you in the morning in Bruce’s lab.”
“You’ll need to eat breakfast,” Steve said.
Tony mentally groaned at the reminder of his new metabolism. “Yeah, I know. Join me for it if you want.”
Steve’s answering smile was shy but sweet, a strange sight considering it was one that Tony didn’t usually use because of how vulnerable it made him feel. “I think I will.”
The soft voice and the warm undercurrent to the words had Tony’s stomach flip-flopping strangely for an indiscernible reason, and he ducked his head, feeling his cheeks warm. He waved Steve off, turning his attention to pouring out the cold coffee into the sink and putting the mugs away.
Hearing Steve walk off, Tony leaned against the counter and rubbed his forehead.
He could breathe and there was no pain, a giddy experience after the last several years. He hoped for his sake that they got this straightened out soon, because readjusting to his own body was going to be troublesome.
“Making pancakes should not be this difficult, JARVIS.”
“I did suggest otherwise, sir.”
“You know how well I do with suggestions, JARVIS. …Damn it!”
“The instructions advised using the lowest setting.”
“You’re telling me this now? Oh, screw it. Where are the eggs? I’ll just make an omelet.”
Standing just outside the kitchen at seven-thirty in the morning in clothes that were decidedly not his but the only ones that fit considering his current body, Steve found himself restraining snickers at Tony’s plight inside the kitchen. He hadn’t yet looked, but he had the feeling it would probably be epic.
He stepped inside the kitchen just as Tony was asking, “Is Steve up yet?”
Steve had all of a second to take in the sight of Tony completely splattered with pancake batter and flour in his hair before he couldn’t help it anymore and burst into unrestrained laughter, clutching onto a chair to keep his balance.
“Steve!” Tony sounded so horrified that Steve lost it in another fit, not even the pain of the arc reactor hindering him.
“You’ve”—Steve gestured up at his face—“got some batter.” He couldn’t speak anymore, wheezing with laughter.
Looking utterly mortified, Tony swiped at his face, only to smear more batter over his face. “Shit!” he cursed, whirling to the sink and turning it on.
Laughter still bubbling up in him, Steve fought to regain control of himself. Chuckles were still shaking his torso, but he’d managed to stop the worst of the laughter and catch his breath. He sat down heavily in a chair while he still could, shoulders heaving with the aftereffects of the laughing fit.
“How did it get in my hair?” Tony muttered aggressively from the sink, scrubbing vigorously at his skin.
“It’s not too bad,” Steve managed, sounding rather breathless.
“I am literally covered with the entirety of the pancake batter I made this morning,” Tony said, dunking his head under the faucet.
“Okay, it is that bad,” Steve agreed, grinning helplessly.
“Yeah, exactly.” Dripping wet, Tony reached for a towel and rubbed it over his hair and face. He still had batter all over his front and arms, but at least his face was clean and looking rather pink. Steve was rather pleased that Tony hadn’t gotten the hang of his blushing reflex.
“Need any help with the omelets?” Steve asked teasingly.
“For your information, I can make omelets,” Tony said, grabbing the carton of eggs at his elbow.
“I’ll believe it when I see it,” Steve said.
Tony narrowed his eyes at Steve, the look fitting surprisingly well on Steve’s face. “What do you want in it?” he demanded, brandishing a whipping spoon threateningly.
“Just about anything’s fine.”
“Just about anything,” Tony muttered, turning to the fridge and hauling out what seemed like half the contents. “Okay, I can do that.”
Fifteen rather traumatizing minutes later, Steve had something that barely resembled an omelet on his plate. There were only vague yellowy bits scattered through the bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, cheese, and tomatoes Tony had somehow managed to throw in it without burning anything.
Poking rather tentatively at the mishmash on his plate, Steve wondered if he should really risk his taste buds for this.
“Well?” Tony asked pointedly, setting his own plate down as he sat. His own omelet actually looked like an omelet, containing only onions and mushrooms.
Steve made a face at him, forcing himself to take a forkful of the food and chewing it. Ugh, God. There were reasons he didn’t eat salads in the morning. Especially salads that weren’t adequately salted. “Absolutely awesome,” he lied, viciously stabbing a tomato. He missed and it went flying off the plate and disappeared somewhere under a cabinet.
Tony raised an eyebrow, taking a bite of his own omelet. A second later found him gagging. “Oh God, that’s disgusting.”
“Really,” Steve said, pushing his plate away. He hated wasting food, but there was no way he was eating that.
“I give up,” Tony said after forcing down the one bite he’d taken. He looked rather disappointed. “I wanted to make something good,” he admitted.
Steve took pity on him. “Not everyone’s good at cooking,” he said, taking Tony’s plate and his own to trash the inedible omelets. Then he took the eggs left over from Tony’s attempts and started making two new omelets.
“No, but of course you’re good at cooking,” Tony groaned from the table.
“I wasn’t always,” Steve said. “But I needed something to do here, so I looked up new cooking recipes. A lot’s changed.” Including how a lot of things tasted, like butter and milk and cheese and even the vegetables. Steve had needed to do a lot of adjusting when it came to his diet after waking up.
Tony was silent for a moment. “They didn’t have pizza back then, did they?”
“We did, actually,” Steve answered, checking the heat on the pan. “There were a lot of little shops selling them on Coney. But I found it a bit greasy, and the milk didn’t really agree with me either.”
“Blasphemy,” Tony said, sounding like he was only half joking. “Seriously, pizza over in Italy is a hell of a lot better than what you can get here, though a great New York pizza can compare.”
“And this is going to be a lot better than what you just made,” Steve said, unable to resist the dig at Tony’s cooking skills (or lack of).
“Shut up,” Tony grumbled.
Steve found himself smiling and didn’t bother wiping it off his face. Tony couldn’t see it anyway, so it didn’t matter. Besides, this was the first time in a long time he had felt somewhat whole since waking up in the twenty-first century. Something about talking to Tony just made things easier to deal with, which Steve couldn’t have anticipated all those months ago when first meeting him.
“When are we due in the lab?” Steve asked, finishing up the first omelet.
“Nine, or thereabouts,” Tony said. “Bruce needs to get everything set up, especially since none of his instruments are going to react to his bio-signature. JARVIS will let us know if we’re late.”
“What’s the use anyway?” Steve started on the second omelet, mentally biting back all the words that he wanted to say instead (what was the use of checking up on everything if it was only going to be temporary? If it was all due to magic? How was science going to help?).
“We need to know what to expect,” Tony explained (it was so damn weird hearing what he recognized as his own voice but a timbre higher coming from behind him). “If anything’s changed with the swapping. Besides, magic leaves trace energies behind, so it’s always possible that we can figure out a way to reverse it without Loki. Dr. Foster wrote a really interesting paper on it.”
Steve couldn’t resist. “She wrote a really interesting paper on how to reverse spells without Loki?”
“No, she wrote a paper on science and magic and how they’re actually closer than most people think,” Tony said snappishly. It was only a moment later that he groaned and there was a thump that sounded like Tony had slammed his head against the table. “Shut up, I’m hungry.”
“Omelets are done,” Steve said, taking pity on Tony. “You want both?” He turned around with both plates on hand to see Tony indeed performing an epic face-plant on the table.
“Yes, please,” Tony said quickly, looking up with large eyes that had Steve blinking in surprise (no wonder Bucky had accused him of using “the eyes, Steve, the eyes!”).
Hiding a smile, Steve turned away as Tony dug into the omelets. He focused on making some coffee for the caffeine headache that was starting up again. He was thankful that the headache he’d been nursing yesterday wasn’t due to lack of oxygen, but he still on occasion had to stop talking or moving just to breathe because he wasn’t getting enough of it. Still, Tony hadn’t wanted him saying anything about it, so Steve was going to keep quiet (wasn’t Banner going to find out anyway?).
Tony was almost done wolfing down the omelets (it made Steve wince just looking at him eat) when JARVIS announced, “Dr. Banner requests your presence in the lab.”
“Ah crap, what time is it?” Tony glanced down at his wrist, frowned, and then looked behind Steve for the time. “It’s nine already?”
“Cooking takes a lot out of you,” Steve said smartly, plastering a sweet smile on his face when Tony looked at him suspiciously.
“Not buying that,” Tony said eventually, shaking his head and finishing his last omelet. “So not – no, wait. There was that one time I took two hours to make Pepper that thing…”
“For her sake, I hope it was a soufflé.”
“It was a kickass omelet.”
Steve flashed back to the “omelet” Tony had made him and grimaced.
“Hey, I know that look,” Tony accused, poking Steve in the bicep and making what would probably be a nice bruise. Steve barely stopped the pained wince. “That’s my ‘I’m feeling sick but don’t want anyone to know about it’ look.”
“Then you probably don’t want to know what I was thinking about.”
“No, I know.” Tony rolled his eyes, gesturing in the direction of the ceiling as they waited in front of the elevator. A blue light turned on next to the elevator and started showing floor numbers counting up. “And your omelets were good,” he admitted grudgingly.
“That could’ve sounded a bit more sincere.”
“Fine, they were absolutely fantastic and I want to marry your cooking skills.”
Steve flushed just as the elevator doors opened, and he got a look in the reflection of the metal as to how Tony’s face looked when blushing (and oh). If that was how Tony looked when blushing (sweet and vulnerable and not as crass as he made himself out to be), no wonder he tried to hide it.
“Tip for blushing: think of something horrifying,” Tony advised him. “My go to is Fury in a bathing suit.”
The image flashed through Steve’s mind before he could stop it and now he was screwing his face up in disgust. “Really, Tony?”
“A pink tutu is another option.”
“I’m not going to be able to look Fury in the eye next time I see him,” Steve groaned, hiding his face as the elevator beeped and the doors slid open.
“I would really like to know what was going on in there,” Barton said from inside the lab, “but I don’t think I want to know.”
“Probably not,” Banner agreed, a bunch of scientific paraphernalia set out in front of him. “Steve, Tony, I’m gonna have you guys go last. Clint, I need you to sit still while I have you fill this out.”
“What – again?” Barton groaned in dismay, taking hold of the pad Banner handed him.
Steve shot Tony an amused look and settled down in a chair next to something that looked like a robot that was wearing a dunce hat. The robot brightened up upon seeing Steve and started poking him excitedly.
Tony was too busy fluttering around Banner to rescue Steve, so he just resigned himself to amusing a strange robot while he waited for his own turn.
Off in a corner, Natasha and Thor had holed themselves up and were poking at some floating blue lights, both looking extremely engrossed in whatever they were doing. Steve just hoped they weren’t up to anything bad.
It took roughly three hours for Bruce to be done testing all of them. He skipped past the usual blood tests, only doing a general markup for each of them to see if they were all as healthy as before the body-swapping incident before moving on to other body scans and paper tests to check what their knowledge base was.
There was also some testing of the physical kind, mainly involving reflexes. That involved a lot of pain and tears – or not really tears because none of them was the crying kind – because Thor actually tried to pin Bruce to the ground when Bruce tested him, only for Bruce’s own reflexes to kick in and the two ended up knocking over a table before stopping. Tony’s reaction was less dramatic because he was already prepared for it, but he did accidentally break the hammer Bruce had used. Steve didn’t react much at all considering Tony’s reflexes weren’t as hyped up as the others’, and Romanov broke a table by “accident,” seeming completely unapologetic about it. Barton just looked rather nervous, clearly uncomfortable with the possibility of letting Hulk out, but Bruce seemed to have a handle on what would trigger a green episode, so all was clear there.
Bruce apparently thought it was hilarious to give Tony an exam on the finer details of life pre-War World II, so Tony just went all out and answered the questions as ridiculously as he could. A short distance away he saw Steve looking really confused and like his brain was hurting, so Bruce had probably given him a lot of math.
He had no idea what Romanov, Barton, and Thor were answering on their pads, but Thor frowned a lot and Barton just looked a bit like he wanted to cry. Romanov seemed completely unimpressed, but Tony had the feeling by now that that was her default expression when she was uncomfortable. And this was definitely an uncomfortable situation for her.
At the end of it, Bruce determined that none of the bodies’ skill sets save for the muscle memory had stayed. So that meant he gave them all quick and dirty exams on their specialized skill sets, which went a lot better for everyone involved.
Except Tony.
It wasn’t that he didn’t know the information. He did. He knew math like it was the back of his hand – better in some cases, actually; he could manipulate variables on the fly better than a pro and easily calculate outcomes of situations in a span of a few seconds. That’s how good he was at math.
But for whatever reason, it just. Wasn’t. Working.
He knew the answers, but his brain took forever to come up with the appropriate equation that he needed to get to the answer because he couldn’t just calculate it on the fly like he usually would. There was no unlimited mental table that he could reach into and just pluck the answer out of. He actually had to crack the numbers to get the answers, and he hadn’t had to do that in years.
Tony’d known that his brain wasn’t working like it usually did. He’d fouled up slightly in some of his interactions with Steve – which had actually worked out, but not without some panicking on his end – because he couldn’t think and figure out what to do. It was a bit like wading through molasses; he could manage it, but it was really difficult and annoying and he just couldn’t get his brain to clear up.
He took the longest to finish his exam, brow pinching more and more in annoyance as he tediously worked through all the problems slowly to be sure that he got it right. He didn’t have to double check his work – there was a gut feeling when he had the right answer even if he couldn’t get it quickly – but it took ages just to get there. And Steve had finished his work first, followed closely by Barton. Thor and Romanov didn’t take much longer with their own work.
So it was just Tony in the end, and he rushed through the last problem with a simmering pit of annoyance and anger at himself brimming in his stomach as he handed the pad to Bruce. He ended up snapping the pencil he’d been using in two, which was when he really almost lost it and had to walk off to a corner and pull open some work to cool himself off.
Even then it wasn’t helping because he was just…so slow. Eventually he gave up with it all, saving everything he’d managed to do and vindictively crumpling up the floating holograph and throwing it into a trash can.
The lack of pain and breathing perks weren’t anything special if he couldn’t think.
Steve noticed – of course he did; it was his body that Tony was in and he knew his body’s tics inside and out. He came over, looking rather concerned. “Tony?” He kept his voice thankfully low, and it was all Tony could do not to snap at him. It wasn’t Steve’s fault.
No, it was Tony’s for letting Loki trick him in the first place. “It’s fine,” he said in a clipped tone.
“You don’t seem fine,” Steve said gently. He slowly rested a hand on Tony’s shoulder, grip tentative.
Unwilling to be touched at the moment with his irritation boiling in him, Tony shrugged it off, unable to look a hurt Steve in the eye – because he recognized that face, all right, and it was just a kick in the gut. “It’s nothing,” he insisted. “Leave it, Steve.”
Out of the corner of his eye he saw Romanov and Barton looking their way, both with curious expressions. He gave them a quirked eyebrow, practically daring them to say something. Barton had the decency to look away, his hand coming up in Bruce’s nervous tic to push his glasses up his nose, but Romanov just gave Tony an unimpressed look before turning her attention back to what Bruce was doing. She obviously didn’t care.
Steve was still studying him, just waiting patiently for Tony to turn his attention back to him. “It’s okay,” he told Tony softly, hands in his pockets and looking nothing at all like Tony and every bit like the Captain he was. “We’ll figure this out.”
Tony bit back a harsh smirk because – again – it wasn’t Steve’s fault. And Tony shouldn’t take this out on Steve, not while he could still think about it and not hurt him. Steve had been hurt enough – soft words exchanged last night had told Tony that much. “Yeah,” he managed a minute later, able to soften his smirk to a smile that was probably not as neutral as he tried to make it judging from Steve’s reaction.
Steve had his brain. How fast was it working in there? Tony knew how quickly his brain could work at times, especially if he was in a manic phase when it came to his work. Things that would take other people minutes took him seconds to work through. Except that wasn’t the case now.
Pepper could never complain that Tony didn’t understand what it was like. He knew now all too well.
“I’m pretty sure I’m done,” Bruce announced a few minutes later, distracting Tony from Steve’s face. “I’m not sure if I covered everything, but it’s all I could think of at the moment.” He grimaced slightly, scratching the back of his head in a tic that was all Barton. “My brain’s not what I’m used to.”
“Oh, thank fuck,” Barton blurted, looking utterly relieved. “I thought it was just me.”
“Not just you,” Bruce said, shooting a glance at Tony before flicking his eyes back to Barton. “Our minds might’ve switched around, but our brains stayed in our bodies. So while we’re mentally the same, we’re dealing with different physical limitations. Biology doesn’t change even if we’re psychologically different.” He made another face that said exactly what he thought of that.
“Tell me about it,” Tony muttered darkly. It garnered him sharp looks from Steve and Romanov, but he ignored them.
“What does that mean for us?” Steve asked, eyes gradually leaving Tony’s face to look at Bruce.
“Nothing, really.” Bruce shrugged, putting the pad he’d been writing on down. “We’re all perfectly healthy”—his eyes flicked up and down Steve, lingering on the arc reactor—“but there’s really nothing to say about what made us like this. The scans on you, Steve, were a bit unclear because of the arc reactor, but JARVIS cleared up most of it.” He flicked open a holograph to show the two different scans. The first had a bright light blurring out Steve’s torso and face; the second had the light gone, although the torso and face were still a bit blurry. There was only so much JARVIS could do.
Tony swallowed upon remembering the way Loki had reached out to touch his arc reactor, but it was already clear that magic didn’t affect his reactor. The Chitauri invasion had shown that pretty clearly when Loki had tried and failed to brainwash him like he had Barton.
“It was unlikely that your machines would show us the solution,” Thor said, probably trying to be reassuring but falling flat.
“Might’ve been a long shot,” Bruce conceded, “but I’ve still got valuable data anyway. I mean, it’s not anything that’s scientifically sound by any means because I put it all together last night, but it works in a pinch.”
“Are you going to send this data to S.H.I.E.L.D.?” Romanov asked.
“No,” was Bruce’s instant response. “I’m sure that they’d find this data absolutely fascinating”—his voice had gone bone dry there—“but there’s a lot they can do with this that I don’t feel comfortable with them seeing.”
“I see the point,” Barton agreed, not looking at all upset by Bruce’s insinuation that S.H.I.E.L.D. was an organization of liars that lied and couldn’t keep their noses out of other people’s business.
“And you don’t want us going back to S.H.I.E.L.D.,” Romanov noted wryly.
“I’ve got space here,” Tony said, shrugging as everyone looked at him. “It was in the plans anyway,” he admitted. “This’ll just move up the move-in date.” Not that he’d had a move-in date to begin with.
“So that’s why you had a bunch of empty floors lying around,” Barton said, nodding. He reached up to finger the frames of the glasses, squinting slightly.
“They were empty anyway,” Tony said, shifting uncomfortably.
Steve touched his elbow reassuringly. “Thanks, Tony. I’m sure none of us will have a problem with staying here.”
“No problems,” Barton said, tilting his head back. “But I’m a slob, just warning you.”
“We should treat our borrowed hosts with the utmost respect,” Thor said warningly. “This is simply temporary.”
“I’ve gotta admit,” Tony said, “going to the bathroom’s kinda awkward.”
“You’re kidding me, right?” Romanov scoffed, rolling her eyes. “You’re in a man’s body, and you’re a man. Loki didn’t even have the decency to put me in a woman’s body. Penises are not as awesome as you think they are.”
There was an uncomfortable silence from the men, and Romanov seemed distinctly satisfied with what she had wrought.
“Here’s a question,” Tony said, unable to keep quiet even in the most awkward of situations and desperately wanting to change the subject from penises. “How come Romanov’s not speaking the way Thor usually does?” He gestured at Thor. “And he’s got his own accent, which is all kinds of weird in Romanov’s voice.”
“It is the Allspeak,” Thor answered with a small smile. “You hear me speak the language you are most familiar with. ‘Swapping bodies,’ as you have said, does not grant me the ability to use the knowledge of the previous mind. Natasha knows English, and thus she is able to speak English. I do not, and the Allspeak transcends biology.”
“That’s amazing,” Bruce said, sounding absolutely fascinated. It sounded really strange in Barton’s voice. “Do you mind going over it with me?”
“I am afraid that Jane has already ‘called dibs’ as you Midgardians would say.” Thor smiled apologetically, eyes crinkling warmly. It was really freaky seeing such a genuine smile on Romanov’s face.
“I’ll just call her then,” Bruce said easily, also smiling. The sight transformed Barton’s usually sour face, making it soft.
“Going off to dance with Dr. Foster, Bruce?” Tony asked lightly, managing a casual grin. “Careful there. You might make a guy jealous.”
“You’re kidding me, right?” Bruce’s grin turned slightly wicked. “This place is literally candy land; I’m not leaving it.”
Tony’s grin turned more genuine. “I told you.”
Steve’s gaze flickered between the two of them, his face slightly confused.
“If the scientists are done patting themselves on the back,” Romanov said dryly, “are we free to go? My plans for the day didn’t involve spending the entire time in a very shiny lab that could quite possibly blind me if I’m not careful.”
“No, don’t leave me,” Barton whined, literally draping himself over Romanov. “I can’t even spar with you in this body. Bruce’s forbidden me from doing anything more strenuous than yoga.”
“Don’t be a baby,” Romanov scoffed, very obviously not shrugging Barton off. “You can watch while I kick Thor’s ass.”
“I think not,” Thor said, mouth twitching. “Let us see which of us will be triumphant before boasting.”
“Okay, this I gotta watch,” Tony said, rocking back on his heels.
“You might want to join, too,” Steve pointed out, sidling closer to him. “Just to be sure that nothing will take you off guard.”
Tony only too clearly remembered when his reflexes in this body had taken him off guard and slapped his own body’s hand away. “I think that regardless of what body I’m in, Romanov and Thor are both liable to kick my ass.”
“As long as you know,” Romanov said sweetly, having overheard.
The superiority in her tone had Tony narrowing his eyes at her. Just for that, Tony was going to do his best to knock her down at least once.
“Oh God, whose bright idea was it to spar,” Tony groaned, collapsing face first on the couch in the privacy of his penthouse.
“Yours, sir.”
“No one asked you, JARVIS.”
“My apologies, sir. The question sounded like it sought an answer.”
“I regret ever programming snark into you.”
“My condolences, sir.”
“No, shut up.” Tony waved up feebly at the ceiling. “My brain isn’t physically capable of handling this.” In more ways than one much to his considerable distress.
“Shall I download a book of witty repartees for you, sir?” JARVIS offered without a hint of empathy in his tone.
Tony glared at the nearest camera. “I will chuck my shoe at you.”
“I tremble in fear,” JARVIS said dryly as Steve entered the penthouse, concern written all over his face.
Tony made an effort to try and sit up, wincing when the bruises Romanov had slammed into his back made their presence known. “You okay?”
“Just checking on you,” Steve answered, eyes sweeping up Tony’s form.
“Your body’s fine,” Tony reassured him, rolling his shoulders. He winced when the wrenched muscle he’d gotten from Thor expressed its displeasure. “Or it will be anyway.”
“It should be by tomorrow,” Steve said, hovering anxiously right by the couch. “But ice’ll help.”
“Why didn’t I think of that?” Tony wondered, staring up at the ceiling. Because his damn brain wasn’t working.
“I’ll get you some.” Steve disappeared to the kitchen, reappearing with several pea bags in hand.
“That’s not ice,” Tony was unable to resist pointing out.
“It’s still cold.” Steve offered the bags to him.
Heaving out a put-on sigh, Tony accepted them, stuffing one under his back against the worst of the bruises and another on his head. The last went on his stomach, which was where both Thor and Romanov had ended up kneeing him. Though Thor’s had probably been an accident since Tony had actually managed to knock him to the mat, and then get the breath knocked out of him by a very painful knee to the gut. He was lucky it hadn’t been to the balls.
Taking a seat on the edge of the couch, Steve was silent for a few minute, just twiddling his fingers and looking off to the distance, biting his lower lip. It was pretty damn distracting, especially since Tony was looking at his own face doing that.
“I didn’t just come up here to check on you,” Steve blurted out eventually, looking at Tony.
“No, really?” Tony couldn’t be bothered to muster up any indignation at this point.
“The others were wondering if they could also come up here,” Steve continued rather nervously.
Tony didn’t really think about it. Likelihood was that they wouldn’t listen to him anyway. “Yeah, why not. JARVIS, let them know, will you?”
Steve slumped in relief against the couch, sighing long and slow. He closed his eyes, pushing his thumbs into the space between his eyebrows.
Tony studied him wordlessly for a moment. After another moment’s consideration during which he knew he hadn’t considered all the variables but really couldn’t considering his brain, he nudged Steve’s thigh with his foot. “I’m not a grumpy monster,” he said, a corner of his mouth lifting in a lazy smile. “You don’t have to be scared about asking me for stuff.”
“I didn’t think that,” Steve answered too quickly. “It’s just…I know what it’s like to want to be alone. And this situation is pretty damn weird,” he added with a small grimace.
Tony snorted, rolling his eyes. “You can say that again.” He shifted, the icy water from the melting pea bags causing unpleasant goose-bumps, and pulled in a deep breath, relishing the oxygen.
He noticed too late that Steve had been watching him, a sad look in his eyes. “I’m sorry,” he said, glancing down at his hands.
“For what?” Tony snapped, vulnerability curling in his chest.
Steve shrugged, not answering. It was at that point that the others spilled into the room, chatting amongst themselves. Only Bruce was engrossed in his pad and almost walked into Romanov’s back because he didn’t notice them stopping.
“Hurting, Stark?” Romanov drawled, obviously having seen Tony on the couch.
“Just bruised thanks to your expertise,” Tony fired back, not bothering to look over at her.
“And thanks for that,” Steve quipped, a rather shit-eating grin on his face.
Romanov had the decency to look just a bit chagrined, but she didn’t apologize.
Thor shared no such qualms. “I apologize, Steven. I had not intended on being so rough.”
“Tell me how it really is,” Steve said, his tone one that Tony was intimately familiar with: Steve was desperately trying not to laugh.
It gave the others pause, and Romanov and Thor stared at him suspiciously. But apparently Steve had a really good poker face because they didn’t get anything incriminating from him. Tony kept his gaze firmly fixed on the ceiling, inwardly cackling.
“I’m going to make some food,” Steve said after another minute, his tone carefully modulated so as not to give anything away. “Tony, you want anything?”
“Anything you’re making is fine,” Tony said, keeping his tone just as carefully modulated. “If you can’t find something, JARVIS can help you.”
Steve patted Tony’s knee and stood, walking past the others to the kitchen. Romanov watched him go with narrowed eyes, the shifty look not fitting at all on Thor’s expressive face.
“Talk science to me, Brucie,” Tony said to Bruce, making grabby hands for the tablet. “What’ve you got?”
Bruce had no qualms about handing the tablet over to Tony to look over and quietly going over the details with him. Though that only lasted about five minutes before Barton drew him into a conversation on the finer details of controlling the Hulk and what other things he could do that wouldn’t induce a Hulk-out but still allow him to exercise.
Tony didn’t really pay attention to it – couldn’t pay attention to it – and so just scrolled through the scientific jargon on the screen.
He was only dimly aware of the din around him and the way his teammates walked around, jostling each other and chatting. Eventually the smell of food – pasta apparently – joined it. Tony ignored it all, too busy trying to keep all the science straight and make sure that it was all in order and made sense.
So it came as a surprise to him when Steve jolted him out of his concentration with a warm hand on his shoulder.
“Food’s ready,” Steve said gently, smiling warmly. His eyes were crinkled, and Tony was just abruptly taken aback by the fact that Steve liked him. Steve honest-to-God liked him. How had that happened? “I’ve told the others not to start, but I don’t know well they’ll listen.”
Tony was suddenly aware that he was starving. And considering this body’s metabolism, that was probably more literal than usual. “Can’t have that,” he said, shutting the tablet off and setting it down on the couch for later. He still hadn’t gone through everything, although luckily Steve’s memory was really something else and he hadn’t had to reread anything.
As he joined the others in the rowdy kitchen, Tony was almost bowled over by the feeling of warmth that the sight gave him. He’d never had such a full kitchen before, and never with people that he could call a team. He wasn’t on good terms with all of them, but he wanted to be. He wanted this team to work, and it kind of peeved him that it was only thanks to Loki that they were together like this now.
Months of work, and he hadn’t even gotten close to pulling this together. And Loki had managed it in less than twelve hours with a simple body-swapping spell.
The fact that he felt the warmth and camaraderie from having a team with him now was startling to say the least. Because it hadn’t seemed like it would work, not with no one else interested in keeping it together.
It wasn’t a good thing to be attached so quickly. Especially since the situation that they were all in – no matter how strange – was only temporary.
After their rather late lunch, they ended up reconvening in the living room, though Tony had forbidden Romanov and Thor access to the bar. In light of what had happened the previous night, Steve thought this a wise decision. Additionally, they shouldn’t drink all of Tony’s alcohol, especially since it wasn’t even theirs.
Steve had grabbed a sketchbook and pencils for now, needing to do something to keep his hands busy. He had no idea how his artistic skills would work in Tony’s body, but he needed to do something. Tony was busy scowling at Banner’s pad, so Steve had no conversation there. And Banner and Barton were conversing with each other while Thor and Romanov started doing things with some books, strings, empty bottles, and paper that Steve didn’t want to look at too closely.
It was really strange how the lines had been drawn since this whole thing had started. They’d all become closer to one another, but at the same time they were still disjointed. And as a tactician, Steve couldn’t help but wonder what this would mean for their team.
Barton and Romanov had been the closest on the team from the beginning. That had been obvious even during the invasion. Tony and Banner had hit it off pretty spectacularly, and the relationship had held strong. Thor hadn’t been close to anyone in particular, but he was a jovial man (Asgardian? Alien?) who got along with everyone as long as they didn’t piss him off or insult Loki (Steve had definitely noticed the sore spot there).
And Steve…
Well, the less said there, the better.
But obviously that had changed now. Barton and Romanov were still close, but now they were also close to Banner and Thor respectively. Time would tell if the relationships stuck even after this problem was fixed, but Steve thought they would (adversity bred familiarity and also fondness, after all).
And now Steve had a friend. A friend that S.H.I.E.L.D. hadn’t assigned and that he hadn’t lied to (like all his failed relationships so far). He was pretty damn sure at this point that he could call Tony a friend, and he was so glad about it (because Tony was honestly a lot more amazing than Steve had thought he was). He regretted not meeting up with Tony when the man had tried to hunt him down earlier.
So although Steve still wasn’t close to the other members on his team, he could make plans to change that now that he had a solid foot and most of his body in the door. He was friends with Tony, and that already went a long way in assuaging in the loneliness in his heart. Tony knew, and that made a big difference in how Steve felt. Now someone else knew; someone who wasn’t going to psychoanalyze Steve and try to get him out there into the world.
It was a weight off Steve’s shoulders, and he was so glad that he’d confided in Tony. He shouldn’t have worried about his relationship with Tony; it was the easiest thing in the world in the end.
Hell, he might even need to send Loki a fruit basket (that was the customary form of thanks now, wasn’t it?) when this was over. This most likely wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for Loki’s interference, and Steve was shamefully glad for that. The Avengers would somehow have found their way back to each other, but at what cost? And how bad would it have been in the meantime?
No, Steve was glad it had happened this way. No matter how strange it was not to be in his own body. And at least he could relieve Tony of the aching pain that he was in every day. No matter how temporary it was, Tony deserved that at least, and Steve had dealt with his fair share of pain in his life. An arc reactor in his chest and limited breathing weren’t the worst of the pains that Steve had to deal with before he’d gotten the serum.
Taking the slow breath that had become his substitution for the deep ones he’d gotten used to in his new body, Steve focused on what he’d been drawing while lost in his thoughts. Tony’s hands weren’t bad at drawing, actually. Steady and sure, the lines were dark. Admittedly, the lines were more geometric in shape than Steve was used to, but it was still undeniably artistic.
Steve really shouldn’t be surprised. Tony was an engineer after all, and engineers did have to draw blueprints (even if Tony did most of it on his fancy tech).
But what was really jarring for Steve was what he’d drawn. In geometric circles and squares, Steve had quite undeniably captured Tony’s likeness. And not Tony in Steve’s body, but Tony as he usually was – vivid and bright and alive. Steve had only seen Tony for a short time in person before spending the rest of it with Tony in a different body, but he’d still captured what seemed to be Tony’s essence.
Glancing furtively over to where Tony was looking thoroughly irritated with himself and the pad, Steve swallowed reflexively, wetting his lips unconsciously before he could think the better of it.
He’d always been one to fall fast and hard (and he’d known from the get-go that he could fall so quickly and easily for Tony; it was why he’d avoided Tony for so long).
The worst part… The worst part of it all was that he didn’t even have Bucky to talk to about this. With Peggy, Steve knew that he’d at least had a shot. But with Tony?
Being in a romantic relationship with a man was more accepted now than it had been back in Steve’s time, but that still didn’t tell him if Tony was interested in guys like that. Steve knew he was for sure (this attraction was irrefutable evidence), but he had no way of telling if Tony was.
There were small signs, things like Tony smiling and on one occasion even blushing, but that could just as well have been Tony being nice. Steve hadn’t had any obvious signs of Tony flirting, and judging from what the Internet said, he would know if Tony was flirting with him.
Tony was many things, but subtle was not one of them.
Sighing, Steve fingered the edges of the paper he’d been drawing on, studying the figure of Tony surrounded by floating holographic screens. It was beautiful, and Steve didn’t even have any colors to bring out the light in Tony’s eyes or the way the light of the reactor would play on his skin.
Probably for the best, otherwise everyone would know.
Steve had just moved to the next page to start on another drawing, this one hopefully of Romanov and Thor bickering mildly over what they should do with their mishmash of objects, when there was a loud crack next to him, causing him to flinch and score a dark line across the paper.
Whipping his head to the side, Steve gaped upon seeing that Tony had snapped the tablet in two and was now glaring at the mess. Judging from the furious set of his jaw and the annoyed twitch in his eyes, Tony hadn’t meant to do it.
“Fuck,” Tony snarled, throwing both pieces of the tablet away. They flew across the room, shattering into pieces upon hitting the wall on the far side and also scoring two deep scratches in the paint. “Fuck it all,” he snapped again, rubbing his face furiously.
The outburst had the others watching him warily, Romanov’s muscles coiling.
“Tony?” Banner asked cautiously.
“I can’t fucking think!” Tony sprang to his feet, stalking fiercely to the windows and staying there, vibrating with anger.
“Maybe just calm down,” Banner started, voice soothing.
“I’ve tried!” Tony whirled, eyes flashing. Steve had never seen himself this angry before, and to be quite honest, it was terrifying. “I’ve tried calming down and just thinking, but it’s like moving through fucking molasses. My brain just won’t work!” The last word was a shout. His hands had come up to fist his hair, knuckles white. “I know the information – I know I know it – but I just can’t bring it up! It’s like it’s constantly on the tip of my tongue but it’s just not coming!”
Banner glanced over to where Steve was still sitting on the couch, absolutely frozen in place with shock. Then he looked back over to Tony and stood, hands out. “You’re using a different brain right now, Tony. It’s not going to work the same as yours usually does.” He managed a small grin. “My thoughts haven’t been quite the same either.”
“Does your life hinge on whether you can calculate a bunch of variables really quickly at the right moment?” Tony asked acerbically. “Because I can’t. Fucking. Do it. I’m flying blind.” His jaw visibly tensed as he looked away, refusing to meet anyone’s eyes.
It took Steve only a second to realize what Tony meant by that. They hadn’t been in a fight, only talking and hanging out, and Tony said he was “flying blind”? So that meant that he calculated variables all the time?
Steve couldn’t imagine living like that.
He’d noticed that his thoughts were running just a bit quicker and that he seemed to be a bit more scatterbrained with more trains of thoughts running than usual, but he hadn’t thought that was because of Tony’s brain.
“It’ll be all right, Tony,” Banner was saying calmly, having made his way to Tony’s side and laid a calming hand on his arm. The rest of what he said was too quiet for Steve to hear without his normal hearing, but it certainly seemed to be having a soothing effect on Tony, who’d closed his eyes and dropped his chin, mouth pressed tightly together. He no longer seemed to be vibrating in place anyway.
“Jesus,” Steve heard Barton sigh. Barton looked tired, his eyes slightly pinched in a manner that suggested a headache (what was it like, containing the Hulk with so little training?).
Steve looked down at the dark line he’d accidentally scored across the blank page of the sketchbook. It struck him that this was what could happen with his relationship with Tony, which was essentially a blank slate at the moment; if he wasn’t careful, he could ruin it like he had just done with the paper.
Considering what he’d just learned about how Tony usually went about his everyday interactions with people, Steve couldn’t do that to Tony. He couldn’t approach the possibility of a relationship with Tony while he wasn’t operating at full capacity. He couldn’t put Tony on the spot like that, make him panic about something that he shouldn’t have to panic about.
No, he wouldn’t do that. Steve could wait. He could wait until they had this situation sorted out.
Once everybody was back where they belonged, then Steve could think about a relationship with Tony (friendship or more, it didn’t matter).
He’d waited seventy years and lost everything once. Steve could afford to be patient.
Following Tony’s rather embarrassing outburst, the others left him alone. Pepper ended up joining them in the evening for an update; she noticed the awkward tension but thankfully said nothing.
She also kept shooting Steve rather speculative looks, but Tony didn’t know what was up with that. Nor did he care to guess what either, too busy sulking and fighting down Steve’s blush reflex because he was embarrassed.
He hadn’t meant to break down like that, but the tablet breaking had been the last straw. He was sick and tired of not feeling like himself, pain and all. He just wanted it to be over, and he’d gladly travel to Asgard for that.
Only they couldn’t. Because Loki wasn’t in Asgard anymore since he’d broken out. Thor hadn’t wanted to waste resources reporting Loki’s breakout because Asgard would doubtlessly have noticed it anyway. So they were stuck on Earth in the wrong bodies until the spell wore off or Loki decided enough was enough.
Tony thought the former was more likely than the latter, although if he got his hands on Loki, the god would have worse things coming to him than a Hulk smash.
Tony might not be very good at physical fighting outside of his suit, but he was a beast at psychological warfare. Not as good as Romanov, but still able to hold his own.
And he’d pull out all the stops if it meant getting back to his own body.
But it was all moot anyway since they had no idea where Loki was and he could use magic.
So when Rhodey called halfway through the evening because he just had to see if it was true, Tony gladly dropped his train of thought in favor of teasing his best friend because Tony now wore the face of Captain America and Rhodey had always idolized the man.
It was even worth Steve blushing and hiding his face behind a book.
The next morning, Tony found himself awake unseasonably early, Steve’s body alert and chipper after only five hours of sleep. It was annoying, especially since the sun wasn’t even up. Tony had better things to do than lie around in bed, staring at the ceiling in increasing annoyance while his body thrummed with energy. He would much rather sleep, for instance.
Finally giving sleep up for a lost cause, Tony threw back the blankets and went to shower, turning the water to a much higher temperature than what he usually had it. It wouldn’t burn him, and this body loved the heat and hated the cold.
By the time Tony was done, the entire bathroom was steamy with heat and the mirror so foggy that he could only make out his silhouette. Tightening the towel around his waist, Tony reached out to wipe the fog off, needing to see if he had to shave or if there was still zero hair growth. He would’ve figured that with Steve’s advanced metabolism the man would have four times the hair growth, but miraculously enough that wasn’t the case.
Tony thumbed his jawline in the still misty mirror, eyes narrowing as he closely inspected it. It still looked smooth and flawless from a distance, but his thumb could feel the start of some growth. It really wasn’t worth shaving it then, especially since he wouldn’t even be able to see if he was getting it right.
“He is a handsome man, is he not?”
The unexpected voice had Tony yelping, banging his knee on the cabinet under the sink, and then nearly slipping on the tiles when he whirled to face the intruder. He would have face-planted if it were not for a strong hand hauling him to his feet and pushing him back against the sink.
Blinking, Tony found himself staring into Loki’s highly amused face. He opened his mouth to shout for JARVIS only for Loki to cover it with a hand.
“There is no need for that,” Loki chastised him. “It wouldn’t do you any good anyhow; I placed a silencing barrier around the room.”
Wrenching Loki’s hand off his mouth, Tony glared at him. “What are you doing here?”
“Admiring your physique.”
Spluttering, Tony pushed Loki back, pleased when the other was actually forced a step away. “What the hell is your play, Loki?”
Loki seemed unruffled at Tony’s anger. “Have you not yet guessed?” He tilted his head to the side. “I think Steven must have some idea by now; he certainly did look thoughtful last night.”
“Were you spying on us?” Tony demanded, horrified at the implications.
“Spying, schmying,” Loki said dismissively, sounding eerily like Tony there for a second. “I was curious to see how you were handling it.”
“Change us back,” Tony snapped, pushing right up into Loki’s space and fisting that damn shirt that could’ve just as well belonged in Tony’s closet considering the band it was advertising.
Loki didn’t seem worried at Tony’s anger. “But the game has only just begun,” he said, smirking. “Why would I stop now?”
“What game, Loki?”
“You’ll figure it out,” Loki assured Tony. “Now, would you like a hug or are you going to step back?”
The sheer ridiculousness of Loki suggesting a hug had Tony’s grip slackening enough that Loki was able to step back out of his reach, still with that damnable smirk on his face, before he raised his eyebrows, snapping his fingers and disappearing in a green haze.
Tony was left standing there angry and very, very confused.
Steve hadn’t anticipated a message from Pepper asking him to meet her in her office. It meant leaving the privacy of his floor and going on a public level of the tower. And that was nerve-wracking in this body; he only hoped that no one was around.
To his discomfort, there was a secretary in front of the office who gave him a beaming smile and fluttery eyes. Steve had no idea how to react beyond flashing an uncomfortable smile and walking straight into the office because Tony would do that and Steve needed to act like Tony.
“Close the door behind you,” Pepper said, not looking away from her computer.
Steve did, and then he was left at a loss for what to do and simply hovered around her desk uncertainly. There were chairs, but he didn’t want to be presumptuous and sit. He had no idea what Pepper wanted him for, and some conversations were better held while standing.
After a few more minutes, Pepper finished up what she had been doing and looked at Steve, only to blink in startled surprise. “You have no idea how strange it is to see you standing there like that when Tony would’ve just sat down and started talking my ear off.” She gestured to the chair directly in front of her. “Please sit, Steve.”
Relieved and slightly more at ease now, Steve leaned against one armrest, only a bit perturbed at how comfortable the chair was.
Pepper seemed to understand. “I know, right? But Tony insisted, and this really wasn’t any trouble.” She shrugged, clasping her hands together on top of the desk.
“I’m not sure why you wanted me,” Steve admitted after another few seconds of anxious fidgeting. “Shouldn’t Tony be here?”
“It’s not anything related to the company,” Pepper assured him. “I can easily call Tony or have JARVIS make a note if I need to. I wanted to talk to you.”
This did not make Steve feel better. “Okay?”
Pepper’s eyes sharpened, although her face didn’t change in any noticeable way. “You’ve not spent a lot of time with Tony.” It wasn’t a question.
“Not really.” Steve warily wondered where this train of questioning was going to lead him.
“Then you probably don’t know that up to a few months ago, Tony and I were in a relationship,” Pepper said, taking Steve aback.
“There might have been stuff in some papers,” Steve admitted, mind flashing back to the lurid magazines dotting every single street vendor and grocery store checkout aisle (he really didn’t like this new trend in society).
Pepper rolled her eyes. “Tabloids are garbage, but I suppose I should be thankful in this case. In any case, Tony and I broke up a few months ago because I couldn’t handle it and he was too high-maintenance.”
Steve was about to protest indignantly on Tony’s behalf, only to realize that he really couldn’t give an accurate judgment on Tony’s character since he honestly hadn’t known the man that long (and it had nothing to do with his feelings), and he’d spent the last several months actively avoiding him for personal reasons that turned out to be moot.
Giving him an all too knowing look that was mixed with pity, Pepper smiled gently. “Tony is high-maintenance,” she repeated. “That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it didn’t work for us. He needed things I couldn’t give him and he couldn’t give me what I needed either.”
Steve was really uncomfortable now. “Why are you telling me this?”
“Because I know Tony,” Pepper said, “and even though it’s you right now and not Tony I’m talking to, I know how Tony looks when he’s in love. I should, considering that he gave me that look during our relationship.”
For one wild moment Steve thought she was talking about Tony, but then he realized that Tony was right now in Steve’s body and Pepper had never even met Steve before this entire fiasco. That meant she had read Steve’s body language and realized how hopelessly gone he was.
“Oh,” was all he could manage.
“Tony doesn’t know, I’m sure,” Pepper said reassuringly. “He’s not the most emotionally aware person, even though he does try.”
“I…” Steve shifted anxiously, scratching his neck. “It’s new,” he admitted finally. “It… I always did fall too fast.”
“Tony does have that impression on people,” Pepper said, sighing. She sobered quickly, leaning forward over the desk. “Are you going to do anything about it?”
“Not right now,” Steve said truthfully. “Not… Tony didn’t tell you, but yesterday he had a little…thing. And I realized that he’s not really thinking normally.” He shrugged. “I don’t really want to spring this on him while he’s not himself.”
Pepper snorted, then looked rather mortified. “Oh, I’m sorry. It’s just that none of you are yourself at the moment.” She tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear, composing herself. “Would I be right in assuming that the reason he’s not himself is because his brain isn’t quite up to par?”
Steve stared. “How’d you know?”
“I’ve known the man for over a decade,” Pepper said. “I’ve walked in on him countless times multitasking on something or another. He’s carried on two or more conversations at once – which is really aggravating if you’re one of those conversations – and he’s pulled together complicated math equations while sitting in on board meetings and following every single word. So I do have some idea of how Tony’s brain works, enough to know that it is absolutely unique.”
She paused, looking down at her hands. “But that’s been a problem,” she continued slowly. “It’s something Rhodey and I have both noticed. Tony has an unfortunate tendency to overthink things. It’s worked wonders in board meetings and his fights as Iron Man, but when it comes to personal relationships, it’s caused me no end of grief. It’s hard to have a relationship with a man who calculates every variable to a t and is too scared of screwing things up to actually do anything.”
Steve swallowed, remembering all too clearly Tony’s frustration from the previous day. “What does this have to do with me?”
Pepper met his eyes calmly. “I’m saying that you should talk to Tony now. It means that you’re far more likely to get an honest answer than when you’re back to normal. Tony being who he is, he’s unlikely to consider a relationship with you when in full possession of his faculties. He’ll think about all the ways a relationship can go wrong and refuse it immediately because he doesn’t think it’s worth the risk. Right now he won’t be able to do that, so he’ll agree to a relationship like a normal person would.”
Steve frowned, feeling distinctly uncomfortable with this underhanded suggestion. “I don’t feel comfortable with that,” he said. “When – if I talk to Tony about this, I want him to agree to something when he’s able to think the way he’s used to.”
“He probably won’t agree to anything,” Pepper warned him.
“Then that’s something I’ll have to work past,” Steve said, determined.
“That could very well take months, if not longer.”
“I’m not one for instant gratification,” Steve said firmly, his tone steely. “I can wait if I need to, especially if it makes Tony more comfortable. Besides,” he added, gentling his tone, “I’ve only known him a short time. It might be good if I get to know him better before pursuing anything.”
Pepper’s eyes were piercing as she studied his face. Steve didn’t relax, staring right back at her, his jaw set.
He’d made up his mind, and Steve was nothing but stubborn (much to Bucky’s considerable dismay in their formative years).
Finally, Pepper nodded, eyes gentling and a soft smile gracing her lips. “I understand,” she said. “So with that said…” Her smile turned mischievous, taking Steve aback with the sudden change to her features. “Here are some helpful tips I’ve gathered for how to woo a genius.”
“I’m sorry?” Steve sounded faint to his own ears.
“I approve,” Pepper assured him, though Steve hadn’t really been worrying about that, actually. “So I’m going to give you some tips. Tony likes flowers, but only occasionally. Make him coffee the way he likes it; you can’t go wrong there. Listen to his rambling; he likes that.”
“Okay,” Steve agreed weakly, wondering if he’d been dumped into a different dimension without anyone noticing.
“If there’s anything else you need, just come talk to me,” she continued, still smiling at him. She handed him a business card that he took after a moment’s hesitation. “I hope it works out for you, Steve.”
“Thanks,” Steve answered automatically, mind whirring over the info dump and surprise that had been foisted on him.
“Great.” Her phone rang. “Now if you excuse me, I have to get back to work. Keep an eye out on the way back; if you do bump into someone, just grin smarmily and blabber something about math. It’ll work in a pinch.”
“I was never any good at math,” Steve said, earning a small laugh from Pepper as she answered the call.
Having been dismissed, Steve stood, opening the door when Pepper said in a peeved tone, “What do you mean there’s something in the vents? Has there been any screaming?”
Not sure if he wanted to know what was going on, Steve left and plastered on a really broad grin at the secretary. Then he walked as fast as he could to the elevator, relieved when he stepped inside and no one else had accosted him. Just about the only thing he remembered from math was how to do basic algebra.
The elevator didn’t seem to be going as fast as it usually did. In fact, it wasn’t even moving.
Steve barely had time to become nervous before JARVIS spoke into the small space. “I apologize for startling you, Captain, but I felt privacy would be best for this conversation.”
Steve swallowed, looking up into the one camera the elevator had. “Yeah?”
“Not everyone in Mr. Stark’s life has had his best interests at heart.” JARVIS’s words were soft. “Thank you for being one of the few who does.”
Any words he could have spoken were stuck in his throat, and Steve had to breathe in as deeply as he could to get past them. “I want to be one of them,” he whispered, not managing anything louder.
JARVIS said nothing else, and the elevator whirred back into life, bringing Steve to his destination in no time.
Steve was still jittery and dazed from the conversation with both Pepper and JARVIS (who was actually so much more alive than he had ever thought), so he was relieved to see that nothing bad was happening when he entered the living room. The only noteworthy thing was that Romanov, Barton, and Tony were all standing around a glowing screen on a window and groaning.
“What’s wrong?” he asked, resolving to put his discomfort in the back of his mind and focus on what was happening. If nothing else, he could enjoy being with his team.
“It’s not what’s wrong, it’s what going right,” Tony said, grinning widely.
“No, it’s what’s going wrong,” Romanov disagreed, scowling. She jabbed a finger on the window, pointing at a red dot on what looked like a very convoluted map of cylinders.
“Do I want to know?” Steve was only vaguely alarmed, which probably went a long way in saying just how used he had gotten to his team’s hijinks.
“Thor and Bruce are in the vents,” Barton explained, tapping at a second red dot that seemed to be at the bottom of the map.
“Why – why are they in the vents?”
“Because we like to have access points mapped out,” Romanov said, “and Clint and I can’t do that in these bodies. Bruce is concerned about an incidence in the vents if he gets hurt, and Thor’s body is too large.”
Now Pepper’s phone call made sense. “I heard there’s been screaming.”
“No screaming,” Tony said, still grinning and looking like he was enjoying this far too much for a man whose vents were being invaded by two human beings. Steve wanted to kiss his smile, but that was probably really narcissistic considering their circumstances. “Except from my employees, maybe.”
“Bruce’s having a tough time of it,” Barton remarked, eyes on the second dot. “He slid down the wrong vent.”
“Thor got stuck,” Romanov said, sighing.
“I gave them earpieces,” Tony told Steve, “but they haven’t really been using them.”
“But you have a map,” Steve said, frowning. “Why do you need to physically go through the vents if there’s a map of them?”
“It’s also fun,” Barton said shamelessly. “Many a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent has quit because they heard something in the vents and no one believed them.”
“I think we’re responsible for half of Coulson’s hair loss,” Romanov said thoughtfully, a shit-eating grin on her face.
“I can definitely see that,” Tony said. “Ooh, Thor’s gotten out.” The red dot that was apparently Thor had gone around a bend, only to fall headlong into what looked like a vertical pipe.
“That’s going to hurt,” Romanov said mildly, not at all worried as the dot plummeted down.
“I’m probably going to get a call from Pepper soon,” Tony said ruefully, palming his phone.
“She already got a call,” Steve said.
Tony shot him a curious look. “What did she want anyway?”
Steve almost froze, but thankfully Tony’s quick brain worked in his favor here since he recovered quickly enough that he could smile and shrug casually. “Making sure everything was fine. I am in your body after all.”
“Anything she tells you is nothing but lies and slander.”
“That means you don’t snore?”
Tony narrowed his eyes. “You know I don’t snore. Ask JARVIS.”
That reminded Steve of the conversation he’d had with JARVIS in the elevator, and he flushed warmly, eyes dropping to his feet.
“Oh God,” Barton groaned, “stop flirting and do something already!”
Steve stiffened, head jerking up in time to catch Romanov punch Barton in the shoulder. Horror rose in him. Had he really been so obvious all this time?
“I’ll have you know that flirting’s my second nature,” Tony said offhandedly, shouldering Steve casually. “Better get used to it, Katniss.”
“I think I liked Legolas more,” Barton said, making a face.
“There something wrong with being likened to a female archer?” Romanov asked sweetly.
“Nah, but Legolas is more my gig, what with him being an elf and all.”
“I didn’t know you were harboring a secret desire to be an elf,” Tony said.
“I like the pointy ears.” Barton gave Tony a piercing look. “And this isn’t flirting. You flirt all the time, but you don’t do it seriously.” He raised his eyebrows meaningfully.
Tony stiffened next to Steve. “You saying I’m flirting seriously?” The words were clipped.
“If the shoe fits,” Barton fired back calmly.
Tony inhaled sharply, eyes pinching. He withdrew slightly from Barton, eyes flicking over to Steve and back. Steve could practically taste the fear from the man, and he hated it.
“That’s enough,” Steve warned Barton quietly.
“I have enough UST around S.H.I.E.L.D.,” Barton said snappishly (what the hell was UST?). “I’m not dealing with it here as well.”
“Yeah, well, nothing’s happening unless we’re all back in our proper places,” Steve said sharply, unthinkingly edging in front of Tony protectively. “I thought you would’ve understood, being in Dr. Banner’s body.”
Barton stiffened, eyes narrowing at Steve. “What’s that supposed to mean?” There was no flicker of green in his irises, so Steve felt relatively confident in pursuing his current line of conversation.
“Different brains, different thinking processes,” Steve said. “Or weren’t you paying attention yesterday? None of us are thinking the same way because our brains literally aren’t working the way we’re used to and it can be really confusing and no one’s doing anything because we’re not all there. I can’t stop thinking because everything’s too fast and there’s too much going on that I usually don’t notice but I can’t help noticing now since there’s too little for me to focus on to keep me occupied. Thor’s crawling his way back up to the top floor, Dr. Banner’s not on the grid anymore, Agent Romanov is seriously considering stopping me right now, and I just can’t seem to shut up.” He jerked his head back, embarrassment burning through him and causing his cheeks to heat up.
More words were burning on his tongue, but he’d said his piece and more, literally unable to stop talking once he’d started, so he kept his mouth tightly shut and refused to look away from Barton’s startled eyes.
From behind Barton, Romanov had relaxed and rolled her shoulders, sighing. “I think it’s about time that you call me Natasha, Captain. We’ve all become uncomfortably familiar with each other by now.”
“Then call me Steve,” Steve said, which was a kneejerk reflex to whenever someone said that now.
Tony had relaxed slightly beside Steve, and his voice was amused as he asked, “Think I can swing Nat?”
“If you fancy another round of bruises,” Natasha said, raising a thick eyebrow.
“Okay, Natasha it is,” Tony agreed easily, only the tension in his shoulders speaking for how uncomfortable he was.
Barton snorted, shaking his head. “Considering you just reamed my ass out, call me Clint. And definitely not Clinton; that’s reserved for Thor ’cause the jackass refuses anything else.”
There was a beeping sound that was definitely not any of them, and Tony checked his phone, an amused smirk crossing his face. “Okay, Pepper just texted me asking why Bruce was in the vents because we didn’t hire a maintenance crew and he’s covered in dust bunnies.” He showed them the screen, where a picture of a very dusty and disgruntled looking Banner could be seen.
There was a rattling sound from above them, and a sudden metallic clatter as the vent above the entryway fell to the floor and Thor tumbled out, landing lightly on his feet in a crouch.
“Points for style,” Tony said, “but you’re fixing that.”
Natasha sighed in disgust, dismissing the entire map so that the window was clear. “That was a complete and utter failure.”
“My apologies,” Thor said, looking and sounding abashed. “It was much more difficult than I had anticipated. I have the utmost respect for your duties, Natasha. It is not something I could do.”
“Obviously not,” Natasha said teasingly. “Especially since you didn’t even make it the whole way through.”
“And Bruce got caught,” Clint added, rolling his eyes.
“He’s apparently refusing to speak,” Tony said after another beep from his phone. “Pepper’s having too much fun to send him back up, especially since the ladies and gents are loving him.” He showed them another picture, this one with Banner surrounded by several people of either gender that were looking at him rather sultrily.
“I didn’t need to see that,” Clint said, closing his eyes.
“He shouldn’t be down there,” Steve said, unthinkingly pressing close to Tony to look down at whatever he was texting Pepper.
Tony didn’t seem to notice Steve’s proximity. “Yeah, I know. I’m telling her that. He should be up in about fifteen minutes or so. I know from experience that people can be handsy if they’re interested.”
Natasha snorted. “Indeed.”
“Fun times all around, sweetheart,” Tony drawled, smiling lazily and putting his phone back in his pocket. “And always consensual.”
Natasha actually didn’t say anything to this, only studying Tony thoughtfully.
Steve looked away, Clint’s earlier words still ringing in his ears. That was also the point where he noticed how close he was standing to Tony and moved away, already missing the heat of his body.
Clint caught his eye and gave him a meaningful eyebrow waggle that did absolutely nothing but tell Steve that Banner’s face really shouldn’t be making that kind of an eyebrow waggle. Thor just looked slightly confused, gaze flickering between Steve and Tony and the two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
By the time Banner entered the living room and tripped over the metal frame lying on the floor because he didn’t see it, they’d all fallen into a sort of mutual silence where they all agreed that nothing that had been discussed earlier should be brought up again on pain of Steve reaming them out or Natasha inflicting painful bruises.
“Never again,” Banner told Clint, rubbing at his cheek and smearing a line of dust all over it. “I really need a shower right now.”
“I don’t know.” Tony gave Banner a casual glance over and grinned. “Dust suits you, Brucie.”
“If you don’t want me to make you really sick, then you will let me take a shower,” Banner said calmly.
“Steve’s body can’t get sick.”
“I do know where to get to your supply of coffee.”
Tony threw up his hands. “Okay, point made! Take a shower and don’t let the door hit you on the way out. The rest of us will stay up here and play strip poker.”
“I’m not playing any game that involves probability with you,” Natasha said.
“I don’t have my mathematically fantastic brain,” Tony said, rolling his eyes. “I think you’re safe.”
“I do not know how to play this strip poker,” Thor said, sounding confused. “Does this involve poking?”
Tony laughed, head thrown back (the arch of his neck was particularly attractive, even though it was his own neck that Steve was ogling), reaching out to clasp Thor on the shoulder. “Thor, buddy, let me teach you the ways of strip poker.”
Natasha narrowed her eyes, poking Tony hard in the chest judging from his wince. “You are not teaching Thor strip poker just to see me naked, Stark.”
“Your modeling pictures have already shown me enough,” Tony answered easily, pushing her hand away. “But it’s a crime that Thor doesn’t know one of the best pastimes of humanity.”
Natasha pursed her lips, eyes still narrowed. “Point,” she eventually conceded. She turned to Thor. “Get ready for some of the hardest game play you’ve seen in your life.”
Banner had already made his way off to the bathroom at this point, hands up in the air to show just how done he was with it all. Thor had a very bemused but accepting expression on his face and was simply nodding.
“We can’t do strip poker without cards,” Clint said. “Where’s your deck, Tony?”
Five minutes later, Tony had ferreted a deck out from somewhere and started teaching Thor (and Steve, to be quite honest, because strip poker had not been something the Howling Commandos had played) the basics of strip poker. Natasha and Clint provided side commentary but allowed Tony to do most of the speaking.
It was probably an odd sight to anyone walking in on them, but Steve was too engrossed in watching Tony’s mouth move and his hands gesture expressively (it was his own body but it was Tony doing the moving and that was really all that counted) to really think on the matter.
Still, by the time they’d actually started a game, they were all pretty damn startled when a call came in through JARVIS and Fury’s voice tersely announced, “I don’t care if you’re still all swapped around, there’s a fucking squid and sparkly ponies out there so you’ve all been assembled. Quinjet is en route with your supplies, Agents. Captain, your shield and uniform are both on board.”
“Oh shit.” Tony’s eyes had widened.
“What?” Steve demanded.
“The suit’s not going to fit me!” Tony gestured at his entire body. “You’re about a billion times bulkier than me and a little taller.”
Steve’s own eyes widened now as the realization practically bowled him over. “But I don’t know how to fly it!”
“Crash course!” Tony grabbed hold of Steve’s arm and hauled him upright, practically wrenching Steve’s arm out of his socket. He noticed and instantly let go. “Fuck, sorry!”
“No, it’s fine.” Steve rolled the shoulder, relieved that it was still in one piece even if sore. “Come on; show me how it works before the jet gets here. You’ve got my suit and shield to deal with.”
The fact that Tony didn’t seem to know whether to geek out or go white from horror should not have been as funny as it was.
But then Banner stumbled into the room, still wet with a towel wrapped around his waist, and Steve lost it.
To put it simply, Tony was panicking. Or, well, he wasn’t really panicking more so than he was really, really anxious because his suit was going to be flown by Steve and he would have to handle a freaking shield while running around in nothing more than a skin-tight uniform.
It was nerve wracking.
To be fair, Steve had picked up on the directions Tony had given him for the suit remarkably quickly. Tony had already said that JARVIS would do whatever he could, but there were a lot of functions in the suit that weren’t run by JARVIS. The HUD was one of them, and thankfully Steve had managed to remember all the instructions. Whether he could remember them in the heat of battle was another thing.
JARVIS dealt with the power, targeting systems, and the weapons, but Steve would have to deal with flying and aiming and just generally not crashing into things. And although Tony had upgraded his suits since the Mark II, that wasn’t to say that flying an Iron Man suit was easy. Because it wasn’t, not for someone unused to it. Rhodey had only known how to operate his because Tony had given him lessons.
That said, Steve hadn’t had as much luck with teaching Tony how to throw a shield because by the time the shield actually arrived, they had all of five minutes to pull on their uniforms and get out there.
“You’re wearing that,” Natasha was telling Thor firmly, her own outfit being Thor’s usual battle regalia sans cape.
“I will not be fighting on the ground,” Thor protested, tapping the handle of Mjölnir pointedly.
“And my body isn’t as resilient as yours, so wear the damn suit.”
“I have no idea how to shoot a bow,” Bruce told Clint worriedly, peering down at the quiver and arrows.
“Just aim and let go,” Clint said, not seeming too bothered. “How do I do it?” He’d taken off his shirt already in preparation of unleashing Hulk. “Just get mad?”
“You’re not usually mad,” Bruce said, “but you can feel him. Just pull him out and he’ll do the rest.”
Tony already had his hands on the shield and was looking down at the shiny surface in trepidation. “This is literally a dream come true, and I can’t even enjoy this,” he said, thumbs stroking over the curvature of the shield.
“You’ll do fine,” Steve reassured him, clapping him on the shoulder. The faceplate came down a second later, and Steve’s voice came out, modulated through the voice synthesizer. “Ready to go?”
“Yep.” Tony shot a glance at the others; Thor was preparing to launch with Mjölnir, and Natasha and Bruce were going with the Quinjet. Reports had already filtered in with the devastation that the giant squid and sparkly ponies Fury had described were causing. He couldn’t help but wonder if these sparkly ponies were in anyway related to the one that the homeless dude had been ranting about.
A moment later, and Steve hesitantly asked, “How did you want to do this?”
Tony restrained a smile because there really wasn’t anything to smile about other than Steve being cute and whoa, where had that come from? Still, not the time to think about stuff like that. “Like this.” He knew exactly where the best spots to hold onto the suit were, and he clung to the front like a limpet, making sure to hook his hands around the neck and loop his ankles around the thighs. Doubtlessly it looked ridiculous, but Tony hadn’t designed the suit with a clingy passenger in mind.
Something that would have to be rectified, because he wanted to do this a lot more. He really wanted to keep this team now that they were all assembled.
“Okay.” Even through the synthesizer Steve sounded rather high-pitched. “Let’s see how this – oh, right.” The repulsors started, and Steve jerked off the floor abruptly, wobbling slightly before he steadied.
“Let’s go before Fury decides to get on our case,” Tony urged, ducking his face against the cool metal.
“I don’t really like flying,” was all Steve said before he took off, leaving the others behind.
It was the worst flight Tony had ever experienced, and that was saying something considering that his first ever flight had been in Afghanistan. But Steve had the best flight system in the world and he was spinning in circles because he couldn’t fly in a straight line.
Tony was thankful that Steve’s body didn’t get sick. “Get JARVIS to help!” he gasped, trusting in his mike to transmit his voice to Steve.
“No, I’ve got it,” Steve said. Then, “Oh shit, no, how do I go back?”
Tony felt the shoulder missiles begin to disengage under his arms. “Steve!”
JARVIS thankfully took care of it a few seconds later, and Tony didn’t have to worry about his arms being blown off.
“Okay, we’re almost there,” Steve said after another traumatizing minute of rough flying. “Should I let you go or…?”
Tony twisted around to see the bay and the ponies and squid that Fury had talked about. Only that wasn’t a squid – that was a kraken, Jesus Christ. And the ponies could fly and were in all the colors of the rainbow. They were also very sparkly and breathed fire. That homeless guy had been right after all.
“Closer to the street and drop me,” Tony decided, eyes scanning the street and taking the entirety of the scene in. “Then get back up in the air and concentrate your fire on the kraken.” Thor had arrived and was already making good work of the ponies with bursts of lightning and well-aimed hammer strikes.
There was a brief moment of panic where Steve actually cut the repulsors entirely instead of powering them down, and they plummeted a couple dozen feet before he managed to get them back on. Tony had let go by this time, having had quite enough of being touted around like a handbag. Steve would be perfectly safe inside that suit as long as he didn’t do anything silly like get himself crushed with force greater than the metal could withstand.
This body knew exactly what to do as he landed on the asphalt, tumbling smoothly into a soft roll that absorbed all shock and transitioned it into pure kinetic motion. By the time he’d gotten back on his feet, his hands had already taken the shield off his back and he was gearing up to throw it.
Naturally, as per his rotten luck, that was when his brain decided to kick into gear and he was left wondering just how to throw the damn thing. Was it like a Frisbee? Or a plate? An unbreakable plate? A Frisbee that could take his head off if he wasn’t careful?
He remembered how Steve threw it, of course. He’d seen a lot of videos as to the movement, and he could mimic it appropriately.
So…should he aim for the group of ponies that were crowded around the base of the kraken?
Since he didn’t really have anything lose, Tony decided to go for the ponies. If he was lucky, then he could also chop off a tentacle as well.
His enhanced hearing caught the signs of the Quinjet arriving. Only moments later, Natasha bounded into view, muscles rippling threateningly. Clint had already hulked out, as Tony heard a menacing roar before a green figure jumped onto the kraken and started punching.
“So, I suppose that man wasn’t delusional after all,” Natasha said noncommittally, taking down several ponies at once with a crazy show of gymnastics that shouldn’t have been possible with Thor’s larger body.
“Sadly,” Tony agreed. Not wanting to be left out of the fun, he reared back and then let the shield go. It spun out of his hand far faster than anticipated and then went careening to the left and through a window. It didn’t make a reappearance.
“Aw fuck it.” Tony ducked a fiery blast from a purple pony and then punched it out before vaulting over it and sprinting to the broken window.
“I don’t know how to fly this thing,” Steve said, sounding rather high-pitched. Tony spared a glance to the kraken, saw Steve slam face-first into a stray tentacle and get whacked into the water, and winced.
“Quick tutorial from JARVIS,” Tony said, leaping through the broken glass fragments and pinpointing the shield. “He knows all the details. You’ve got it.”
“Okay, okay, I – no, shit, that’s the wrong thing—”
“I really hope no one’s filming this right now,” Natasha said, taking down several ponies with a cleverly executed maneuver that Tony caught the tail-end of as he left the empty store.
An arrow fired rather poorly by Bruce went flying over their heads and hit a building, exploding a moment later. “I think I’m gonna sit this out,” Bruce said a second later. “Just watch and see what I can do.”
“That’ll be a lost hope,” Tony said to Natasha, making sure the shield was securely locked onto his arm so he could start punching out some ponies. He wasn’t going to use it like a Frisbee until he could get it to rebound and not just fly off through a random window.
Now that he wasn’t throwing it around, it was actually pretty easy to use the shield to take down pony after brightly colored pony. It was instinctual the way his body would smoothly move between ponies, interchanging punches with kicks with thrusts and slices from the shield. He almost didn’t have to think about it unless Natasha almost beaned him in the head or Steve cursed in his ear because he’d fouled something up.
By the time Steve had accidentally fired the entire array of weapons missiles on the kraken and almost hit Hulk, Tony had had enough. “It should be muscle memory by now, Steve. Just react and don’t overthink.”
“Easier said than done,” Steve said in Tony’s voice, which did remind Tony that Steve had gotten the short end of the stick with the hyperactive brain.
There was an almighty crash of thunder from above their heads, and then Thor’s lightning rained down on the street and killed a dozen ponies. More fell down from the skies, having been flying around and causing general havoc that Tony couldn’t take care of.
It did give Tony an idea for how to take care of the kraken, which was fending off Hulk’s attempts at bashing it into a pulp rather admirably. “Steve, can you get Thor to do that same trick with the kraken? And aim it towards the eyes?”
“I’m also flying up here,” Steve said.
“It’ll be fine – the electricity’ll just charge the reactor and give you a boost. The only thing you’ll feel are a bunch of vibrations.”
“We need to get the situation down here handled,” Natasha reminded Tony, punching down a stray pony that got too close.
“From what I can see up here, it looks like the ponies and the kraken are working together,” Bruce said. “The kraken got kind of agitated when Thor did that.”
“All right, got it,” Steve answered. “I’ll see what Thor can do about it. And, Tony, the same thing applies for the shield. Just don’t think.”
Easier said than done, and Tony didn’t particularly want to go chasing after it if he messed up. Still, he used it to bash a red pony in the face before kicking a blue one in the chest. He had a very strong feeling that Loki was behind this little thing because of course the crazy Norse god would think it absolutely hilarious to have the Avengers fight a kraken and ponies right out of My Little Pony while body-swapped.
He kind of wished he’d told someone else about Loki appearing in his bathroom that morning, but he hadn’t really had any idea what to say beyond “Loki creeped on me in the bathroom and said you look cute, Steve,” because A) Steve was cute and B) there was nothing anyone could do about a Norse god with magic.
The light dimmed as Thor summoned storm clouds, and thunder rumbled threateningly, vague crackles of lightning setting the hairs on Tony’s nape upright. He chanced a glance up, momentarily stunned when he saw the delicate tendrils of lightning dancing across the clouds and centering to where Thor was hovering midair, hammer held out like a lightning rod. Steve flitted about below him, having gotten the hang of firing repulsor blasts at the kraken and dodging the retaliating strike.
Several breathless seconds later, Thor unleashed the full force of the lightning he had amassed, bringing it all down on the witless head of the kraken floundering in the bay.
“I hope he realizes my body isn’t as hardy as his,” Natasha muttered, motionless next to Tony.
There was static crackle in the earpiece, so loud that Tony was forced to rip it out at the same time that a crackling Iron Man suit hurtled over their heads and crushed an empty bus.
“I thought you said he’d be fine?” Natasha sounded very unimpressed.
“He will be,” Tony asserted, sparing only a brief glance back at where Steve was lying. He was too busy worrying about the fact that the ponies had become absolutely bat-shit crazy thanks to the attack Thor had unleashed on the kraken, which was looking entirely roasted and not at all alive.
He felt the attack coming before he saw it, body reacting instinctively to defend itself. Before Tony knew it, the shield had left his hands and gone flying, bouncing off pony after pony in an intricate dance before hitting a lamppost and then whirling back to him.
It was by this time that Tony realized he had absolutely no idea how to catch the stupid thing, his mind having caught up with his body by now.
Since he didn’t really feel like being decapitated or badly bruised, Tony did the only thing he could think of: he dropped to the ground, letting the shield fly harmlessly over his head and imbed itself in an unlucky car.
“Okay, that’s impressive,” Natasha said, sounding darkly amused. Tony lifted his head to shoot her a glare.
Over by the bus, Steve had managed to pry himself free and was now heading to the shield to pull it out. He tromped over to where Tony was picking himself up, the suit managing to convey a distinct air of grumpiness that was impressive.
“Banner thinks everything’s done,” Steve said, not giving the shield over to Tony.
Making a face at Steve’s refusal, Tony looked around at the devastation that the ponies had caused. None of them were moving and all of them seemed rather dead.
“We’re going to have a legion of traumatized kids, I just know it,” Tony said, sighing.
“No, we won’t,” Steve said, “because we’re cleaning this up.”
With an earth-shattering roar, Hulk landed next to them, snorting derisively. He picked up a pony and sniffed it, only to make a disgusted face and drop it.
Thor landed moments later, red hair sticking up in all directions. He wore a blinding grin. “That was most invigorating!” he enthused.
“I’m glad you think so,” Steve said dryly.
Bruce joined them, quiver and arrows in hand and looking rather sheepish. “Well, that was something.” He looked up at Hulk, eyes scanning the green behemoth. “Hey,” he breathed.
Hulk didn’t seem impressed with Bruce, sniffing imperiously before turning to Tony and grinning. Then, unexpectedly, he began shrinking back down to a small human.
That left Clint sitting there stark naked and rather confused, as he’d evidently forgotten to pull on Bruce’s stretchy pants that morning.
“Oh God,” Natasha said. “Someone get him clothes before we’re sued for public indecency.”
After cleaning the streets of the carcasses of brightly colored ponies, they’d been called in for a quick debriefing that luckily didn’t take place on the Helicarrier since it seemed that Fury didn’t trust them on it after the disaster that had been them fighting. There was enough speculation going on the news as they continued to replay the footage of Tony throwing the shield like a complete amateur, Steve flying like a drunk loon, and Thor flying around in a distinctly feminine body that none of them wanted to show their faces in public until the whole affair was done with.
Tony really wanted to be back in his body now; the novelty had thoroughly worn off. He also didn’t want to make his suit bigger in case of another little disaster because there was no way that Steve was pulling on the Captain America uniform and punching out ponies in Tony’s body.
Fortunately for them all, they encountered no one as they landed the Quinjet on the landing pad. It was one of the perks of having a private one, although Tony would bet most of his fortune that there was a hell of a lot of gossiping going on right now on the lower levels as his employees discussed just what had been going on with him.
Or maybe he was being egoistical. It was definitely a possibility.
He just needed to get Steve to do the walk to get the suit off before he could focus on anything else, like damage control.
“So I just walk?” Steve sounded disbelieving.
“Yep.” Tony gestured to the path. “JARVIS will take care of anything else. Have at it!”
Still with a faint air of disbelief, Steve did just that, the mechanical arms doing their job and expertly dismantling the suit. The boots were a tad tricky as Steve didn’t quite step right, but JARVIS was adaptive.
The others had convened in the kitchen by the time Tony and Steve joined them, and Bruce was already putting a pizza in the oven while a pot of water sat on the stove.
“Let’s never do that again,” Clint grunted, head pillowed on his arms. He sounded exhausted.
“It was an interesting experience,” Natasha said noncommittally.
Thor beamed, his hair still sticking up in all directions; the static electricity had yet to disperse. “I must agree!”
“Let’s still not do that again,” Steve said, sitting with a relieved sigh. “Your suit’s more complicated than I thought, Tony.”
“You did about as well as I did the first time I went out,” Tony assured him. “It takes some getting used to.”
Bruce set down a banana and yogurt for Clint. “You should eat something.”
The sight of food reminded Tony’s body that it was rather hungry, too, having burned a lot of energy fighting. Not wanting to wait until the food Bruce was making was done, he went and picked out a power bar.
The snack tided him over until the food was done, but then he had to elbow past Natasha and Clint to get to it. Thankfully Bruce made enough for three people with super metabolisms because there was still food left over for Steve and Bruce.
They ate in relative silence, each one of them probably feeling rather uncomfortable considering the cluster fuck that had happened out there. Tony, for one, was pitifully embarrassed since he was supposed to be a genius and he couldn’t even figure out a freaking shield. Then again…from the stories he’d heard, Steve hadn’t been all that good with a shield either the first time he’d started out.
Tony snorted quietly to himself at the thought, earning a curious look from Steve that he waved off in favor of getting some more bread. He’ll be reeking of garlic, but he didn’t really care. It wasn’t like he was going to be kissing anybody.
That was where that thought stuttered to a halt since Steve smiled at him as he gave Tony another serving of pasta. Did people usually smile if they were forking out food?
Tony wasn’t sure what was up, but Steve had been acting weirder since Clint had pointed out the whole flirting thing. To be fair, Tony hadn’t even noticed he was doing it. Flirting was like breathing for him, but he never actually tried to do it seriously with the intention of hooking someone for something other than a one-night stand.
And there was no way he’d pull Steve into something like that. Fury would kill him and then resurrect him only to let Coulson kill him again – and Tony knew the guy was alive because there was only so much Fury could hide, ha – and it would also completely fuck up the dynamics of the team. The team was a good thing so far, so Tony wasn’t going to fuck that up.
No matter how much he might want Steve and the possibility of a stable relationship.
Thankfully Steve didn’t do anything else weird, allowing Tony to focus on polishing off his plate and then move on to helping clean up the dishes and pots. Okay, well, he carried them but then he didn’t do anything else because he was more likely to accidentally break something than clean it. Natasha suffered the same problem even though she had better muscle control than Tony; she’d already broken a vase because she’d fucked up her sense of space and gestured too broadly.
Considering that he was then nigh useless in the kitchen after cleaning the table, Tony headed back to the living room with the intention of either sleeping off the meal he’d eaten or trying to get some work done for R&D.
That was until he saw the Norse god casually drinking something at his bar.
Tony did not jump a foot in the air; nor did he shriek. But he did point an accusing finger at Loki and shout, “You!”
Loki gave him an unimpressed eyebrow raise, taking another sip of his drink, which looked like bourbon. “Me.”
“What are you doing here again?” Tony demanded, very carefully not approaching the bar. JARVIS hadn’t said a thing, but Loki could have shielded himself from the cameras. Again.
The only response was a dismissive flick of eyes as Loki turned his attention back to his drink. “Don’t ask stupid questions, Anthony. It doesn’t become you.”
“Considering you body-swapped us, it’s a perfectly legit question! And the creepiness last time!” Tony accused loudly, already hearing the pattering footsteps of his team as they rushed to the same room.
Loki seemed completely unperturbed as all the Avengers assembled in the room to face him. He inclined his head in Thor’s direction, the movement seeming ridiculously regal even with the mini umbrella he plopped into his drink.
“Thor, you are looking particularly divine,” Loki drawled, lips curling into an amused smirk.
Thor frowned disapprovingly, Mjölnir in his hand. “I did not think you would show your face, Loki.”
Loki waved a dismissive hand, the umbrella twirling in his fingers. “You know me, brother,” he said idly. “I tend to dance on the riskier side of life.”
Thor’s frown became slightly confused, but no trace of it showed in his voice. “Undo your magic, Loki.”
Loki’s mouth twisted slightly, something that seemed eerily like disappointment flashing through his eyes. He sighed then, tucking the pink umbrella behind his ear and finishing his glass. “You have not heard word from Asgard, have you, brother?”
Thor shifted uncomfortably, his discomfort apparent even from where he was standing next to Steve. “I have not,” he answered carefully.
“They would have contacted you if anything were amiss,” Loki pointed out calmly, one foot perched on the base of the bar and spinning the chair he was sitting on back and forth. “You are the prince.”
“You are crafty with illusions, as you have oft boasted,” Thor said.
“Illusions only go so far,” Loki said, “particularly if the caster is not present to keep them stable. I would say that the average illusion would only last about twenty-four Midgardian hours without my presence.”
“Why are you telling us this?” Natasha asked, voice wary. Her eyes were narrowed calculatingly, and she’d situated herself in front of Clint protectively.
Loki’s smile widened. “You know yourself, Natasha. From what I understand, you have quite an inside knowledge into my mind.”
“You’re saying that you’re still in Asgard,” Steve said evenly, surprising everyone. “Is this the illusion?”
“Astute, Steven, but still incorrect. Illusions that traverse worlds without some kind of object to focus on are impossible.” Loki’s eyes were fixed on Tony and had been for the last minute. It was beginning to make him uncomfortable. “Nor can illusions cast spells.”
“That’s definitely the real Loki,” Clint said quietly. “Something about him is rubbing the Hulk the wrong way.”
“The Other Guy can smell him,” Bruce said. “Last time he smelled like a bag of cats.”
“I don’t know what that smells like, but he doesn’t smell like that now.”
Tony’s mind was running over what he remembered from his brief encounters with Loki in the elevator and the bathroom. He hadn’t sensed any menace from the god then, especially compared to his previous encounter with him. In fact, Loki had seemed entirely neutral, only a faint hint of amusement coming off him.
And the bathroom thing… Loki had seemed friendly then, joking with him and everything. It wasn’t something that Loki would seem to do, especially after he’d tried to wipe New York City off the face of the Earth.
If Asgard had no need to send Thor a message, and the Loki here obviously wasn’t an illusion, then the only solution that remained was…
“You’re another Loki,” he blurted out.
Loki’s eyes brightened, and he beamed, which was an absolutely surreal sight.
“Parallel universes?” Bruce asked.
“Very good,” Loki purred, grinning in a manner befitting that of a cat that had caught the canary.
“So what are you doing here?” Steve demanded.
“I was taking a trip,” Loki said unhelpfully. “This little universe caught my attention, and I…” He smiled, shrugging as he smoothly slid off the stool to stand. “Well, I decided to lend a helping hand.”
“How was this helping?” Tony couldn’t stop the disbelief from saturating his tone if he’d tried.
Loki rolled his eyes, sighing in aggravation. “You were all divided – scattered. Nothing like a true team. I provided the means to reunite you and enable some ‘team bonding time’ as my friend would name it.” He’d even provided the air quotation marks.
“You have friends?” Tony couldn’t help but ask, only to get poked in the bicep by Steve. “Ow!”
But Loki didn’t seem irritated; in fact, Tony’s remark seemed to have tickled him judging by the gleeful and almost…fond – really? – grin he was sporting. “Oh yes,” he said, and that was definitely a fond tone; Tony was sufficiently creeped out by now. “You are indeed him.”
Everyone was staring at Tony weirdly now.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Tony said, taking a cautious step back to distance himself from the still potentially crazy Norse god.
“Consider this a gift,” Loki told him, definitely not helping with Tony’s creep meter – which was now in the red zone. “You remind me of a very dear friend.”
Thor looked completely bemused now, but he still wasn’t saying anything.
“You know what I’d consider a gift?” Tony eventually ventured to say. “You swapping us back. That would be totally awesome if you get my drift.”
Loki studied him for a moment, face blank. “The sense of humor is slightly lacking,” he finally decided much to Tony’s indignation.
“I’ll have you know I’m witty,” Tony protested.
“Extraordinarily witty,” Loki agreed dryly. “I wish you the best of luck, Anthony. And, Steven…” He gave the other man a hard stare. “I do know where you live if you hurt him.”
With that parting sally, Loki waved a hand in their general direction.
Tony had all of a second to register that Loki had apparently just given Steve the equivalent of a shovel talk before he blacked out.
There was no pain. That was the first thing Steve registered. The second was that he could breathe without feeling like something was digging into his lungs.
He heard the sounds of several other people breathing nearby, along with some rustling as someone moved. Opening his eyes, Steve saw Natasha stand, frowning in the direction of the bar. Then she reached over to pick up Mjölnir and Steve realized it was Thor.
Sitting up, Steve looked down at his familiar hands. Only a few feet away from him lay Tony. He was face-down, and Steve knew from unfortunate experience how uncomfortable that was with the arc reactor. Reaching over, Steve carefully moved Tony to his back and lifted him up, carrying him over to the couch even as Thor walked to the bar and pondered the chair Loki had been sitting on.
That reminded Steve of what Loki had said before reversing the spell. It was so unbelievable that Steve half-thought he’d imagined it.
“Did your brother just threaten me if I hurt Tony?” Steve needed to ask, glancing over at Thor.
Thor returned his gaze, smiling ruefully. “He did.”
“Huh.” Steve wasn’t sure what to say to that, so he just sat down on the couch by Tony’s feet, one hand coming to rest on an ankle.
Thor came over to stand by Steve, facing their other unconscious teammates. “I do not think they will be unconscious for long.”
“Banner should be up first,” Steve said. “That’s if nothing happens.”
“I think not,” Thor said. “He is back where he should be; the Hulk then has nothing to fear.”
“Maybe.” Steve looked down at where his thumb was gently stroking Tony’s skin.
“I think that if they wake in their current positions and find us here, they will be most displeased with us,” Thor said thoughtfully.
The way Clint and Natasha had dropped to the floor didn’t look very comfortable at all, so Steve definitely had to agree with that. He helped Thor pull them to the carpet and laid them out on their backs. Then he returned to Tony’s side.
Thor studied him. “This is new, is it not?”
Steve startled for a moment, hesitating only briefly before meeting his eyes. “Yeah. I need to talk with him about it.”
“Surprising that Loki would have known,” Thor noted. “Or perhaps not, considering that he is friends with an Anthony in his universe.”
“That Loki wasn’t the same,” Steve said cautiously.
Thor’s face darkened in grief. “No,” he agreed quietly. “He was not. He is what my brother could have been had he come home.”
“I wonder what changed there,” Steve mused.
Shrugging, Thor took a seat on the end of the couch. “There is no way of telling. It does not do to dwell on impossibilities. That way leads to madness.”
There was truth to that, so Steve said nothing more, instead turning his focus to Tony. He had no idea how long he’d be out, but he hoped it wasn’t for much longer. Now that he was back in his original body and Tony had his brain back, he really wanted to talk and see what could happen.
Pepper’s warnings flitted through his mind, but Steve didn’t care. He had the patience, and he was willing to wait for however long it took Tony to decide that a relationship was worth it. Besides, there was also that wooing advice she’d given him, and Steve was definitely going to be putting that to good use.
All the reasons he’d had at the beginning – or lack of reasons, really – for avoiding Tony like the plague were gone. He could nurse this affection he had for Tony; he didn’t need to worry about it because Tony was a good man. A great one. One that Steve would be proud to love.
Eventually he’d have to tell Tony that he’d been avoiding him, but he’d leave that for later.
His thumb returned to stroking Tony’s warm skin, and Steve wasn’t interested in moving anytime soon.
Ten minutes later, Steve almost didn’t notice the shift in Tony’s breathing. When he did notice, it was too late to pull his hand away because Tony was already awake and staring at him with wide eyes filled with confusion.
Suddenly filled with trepidation, Steve swallowed and very carefully didn’t move his hand from Tony’s ankle. He had a point to make here and was going to make it.
“You feeling all right?” Steve asked, which was as good a starting point as any.
Tony blinked rapidly, shifting only slightly so that he was propped up against the arm rest. “Back to normal,” he answered slowly, taking a cautious breath that Steve recognized as one he’d gotten used to taking.
It hurt Steve that Tony was hurting. He didn’t deserve that, and Steve wished there was something he could do so Tony would stop being in pain.
“Don’t give me that look,” Tony said irritably, pushing his toes into Steve’s stomach. “I already said I’m used to it, remember?”
Steve shot a glance at Thor, who was carefully not looking in their direction. “Doesn’t mean I can’t worry.”
Tony shrugged, eyes flickering down to where Steve’s thumb was still stroking the skin. “Is there…” He swallowed visibly. “Is there a reason you’re doing that?”
Steve took a shallow breath and bit the bullet. “I like you.”
“I like you, too?” Tony seemed to be purposefully obtuse.
“No, I mean I like you.” Steve kept his tone carefully even, making sure no hint of his nervousness seeped through. “As in, I want – I want to try a relationship with you.”
Tony didn’t respond immediately, and even then he pulled his feet out from Steve’s lap so he could curl up into a ball. Steve let him, disliking it all the while.
“I don’t think that’s a good idea,” Tony finally said, not meeting Steve’s eyes.
Steve’d expected this. “Why not?”
Tony blinked, evidently surprised. “Because it isn’t. You’re you and I’m—”
“You,” Steve interrupted, not wanting to hear how that sentence finished. “And I happen to like you.”
Tony threw a panicked look over Steve’s shoulder to where Thor was sitting, but the other was very clearly not paying attention to them as he’d procured a phone and was talking to Jane Foster.
“It doesn’t have to be anything serious immediately,” Steve said, instantly hating the words even as he spoke them. “But can we just…try? Because I want to, Tony.”
“Relationships with me generally aren’t a good idea,” Tony said, but there was a hint of something that Steve dared to hope was longing in his voice.
“I know we can do it,” Steve insisted. “We’ve literally been inside each other; I think we can do anything.”
Tony kept his face blank for all of a second before he broke down in hysterical giggles, hiding his face as the laughter rolled through him. “Please tell me you did that on purpose,” he choked out.
“Did what?” Steve didn’t give anything away.
Tony stretched a leg out to push Steve’s thigh. “No, I know you now, Sass and Spangles. You have a dastardly sense of humor lying under that exterior.”
“And you’re really sweet,” Steve said softly, smiling.
“Sweet? I’m not sweet.”
Steve reached out to touch Tony’s leg, squeezing gently. “No, you are. You’re the first person who’s made this time feel remotely like home. And I don’t want to lose that – you.”
Tony didn’t respond immediately, eyes flickering back and forth the room as he obviously thought. “It’s probably not going to work out,” he warned finally, shoulders hunching, but there was a faint edge of hope in his voice that had Steve’s heart thumping in his chest.
“I don’t know that,” Steve said, putting in all his hope and longing in his voice and trusting that Tony would hear it. “I’m thinking it will. All I really want is someone to step out with, someone I like, and someone I want to spend time with. You meet all of those qualifications.”
Tony’s smile was weak. “Not hard to.”
“I’ve been out for a while, Tony. I haven’t found anyone I’d like to do that with yet.” Steve smiled gently. “Until you.”
Tony fell into another considering silence. Eventually he said, “This is going to be slow.”
Relief suffused Steve, along with a slow blooming happiness that he didn’t want to let go; it had been so long since he’d felt happy. “Slow’s fine,” he assured Tony. “Slow’s perfect. I just want you.”
“You always that sappy?”
“I could do more,” Steve said seriously, leaning towards Tony. “I really like your smile, never mind that I’ve only seen it in mirrors. I like how you care about other people, even though you try to hide that you don’t. I even like that you’re rude, because I can be rude, too.”
“Captain America, rude?” Tony murmured. “Say it isn’t so.”
“I wasn’t always Captain America. I’m just a kid from Brooklyn, and this kid got into a lot of back alley fights.”
“And this kid is looking for a serious relationship?” Tony asked, serious now.
Steve had said it didn’t have to be serious, but he didn’t have it in him to lie again. “I am.”
After a minute of silence, Tony finally gave a small smile. “What the hell. I’ve done crazier things. Sure. Why not?” He pulled down his legs to lean forward to Steve. “Let’s try it.”
Steve was unable to resist smiling, too happy to bother stifling it. It had only taken about fifteen minutes, but Steve would’ve been willing to wait months if Tony had needed it. He’d tell Tony as much later, but for now all he really wanted to do was intertwine his fingers with Tony’s.
So he did as much, only for Clint’s voice to startle him when he asked, “You guys aren’t kissing now, right?”
“Oh God,” Tony said, sounding mortified. “How much of that did you hear?”
Natasha smoothly sat up, pinning Steve with a gleeful smile. “You’re incredibly sappy, Rogers.”
Banner sat up more slowly, offering Tony a tentative smile. “I’m glad for you two.”
“I’m not speaking to any of you,” Tony declared.
“We didn’t want to interrupt,” Natasha said.
“So you just eavesdropped.”
“Not our fault if you chose to have the conversation in the open.” Natasha shrugged, clearly uncaring save for the amusement in her eyes.
Tony turned to Steve. “This is your fault.”
“I don’t know,” Steve said, ears burning red. “I hear it takes two to tango.”
“You know what,” Rhodey said from the entryway, Pepper standing next to him, “I really don’t want to know.”
“I want you to know that I find you incredibly attractive right now,” Tony informed Steve shamelessly.
“Can we kiss?” Steve suggested, feeling brash enough to push his luck even though they hadn’t even gone on a date. Didn’t being inside each other’s bodies count?
“I’d be a fool to say no,” Tony said, ignoring the groans from Rhodey and Clint.
Of course, by the time Tony scooted down the couch to gently kiss Steve, he didn’t really care about that at all.
Maybe he would send Loki a fruit basket.
I had a blast writing this, especially with working in some of the biology of switching bodies but keeping the same personalities. And it's a body swap fic, which is a trope that I can't get enough of when it's well written. (And we don't have enough of them, so this is me, adding to that collection.)
The basic idea for this body swap story came from this particular gif set, but obviously I didn't manage to incorporate that dialogue anywhere in the story, mainly because it just didn't fit, and I also couldn't see Thor being so disrespectful of Natasha's body.
So, I hope you enjoyed the story, and please give your love to teaberryblue and hayatecrawford for being absolutely awesome and giving this story amazing art!
Walk a mile in your shoes (artwork) by hayatecrawford
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Anti-Meth Bill Unlikely to Pass, Supporters Plan to Try Again
Supporters of a bill aimed at curbing meth production in Kentucky say they are not giving up their fight, even though the measure is unlikely to pass in the current legislative session.
The bill would make certain cold medicines that contain the meth ingredient pseudoephedrine available by prescription-only. Supporters, such as Louisville Metro Police Sergeant Stan Salyards, say they’ll push for it again next year because it’s the only way to stop meth.
“Enforcement’s really not going to solve this problem because we’re not going to be able to arrest our way out of this problem,” he says.
Salyards says Oregon and Mississippi have seen success with similar laws. Further, he says action is necessary soon. Meth labs busts reached at an all time-high last year, topping one thousand. Salyards says the Kentucky State Police expects to find more than 14 hundred labs this year.
Opponents of the bill say it would affect innocent people who can’t afford to visit a doctor to get a prescription for cold medicine. Others say prescription drugs can also be abused, and the bill would be ineffective.
Published March 3, 2011 By Gabe Bullard
Categorized as Local News, Politics Tagged Crime, drugs, Frankfort, General Assembly, Law, meth, stan salyards
Beshear Signs Corrections Bill Into Law
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Interview with Sound Recordist, Nick Peterson
As part of the Beyond Reality interview series, I interviewed Nick Peterson, a sound recordist who has worked on shows such as Australian Survivor and Travel Guides. He shared his story of starting out in TV, what it was like growing up in a TV family and the toughest gigs in sound.
To listen to the full interview, check out the Beyond Reality podcast here: Beyond Reality – Nick Peterson.
Did you always want to work in TV?
No, I didn’t! I was a musician at school so I always wanted to get into recording music, playing music for a living if possible but that was a lofty dream that wasn’t to happen. Being from a TV family, I kind of fell into that side of the world.
Your dad is a DOP, what was it like growing up in a TV family?
Well summer holidays were a little bit different, while my friends were going off to beach holidays, my brother and I were helping out on shoots, carrying tripods or holding reflectors. We would typically help out on commercials and corporate videos. I have memories of spending my 18th birthday, 2km underground in a gold mine in the middle of Western Australia camera assisting for a corporate video. I had zero interest at that age of following in dad’s footsteps or getting into photography but I think in hindsight, it set me up pretty well for adult life cause while my friends were going off to spend years at university, I got a head start and went straight into work.
Did you go to University and if so, what did you study?
When I finished school, I had enrolled to do a PE Teaching course at university but the last thing I wanted to do after 12 years of studying was go and do another year of study. My mum was adamant that I couldn’t take a year off so she handed me the TAFE booklet with a couple of highlighted courses, one of which being music technical production so all things recording studios, bands, musicians so the things I was interested in school.
What was your first job in reality TV and how did you land it?
My dad and my brother were both working on Australia’s Next Top Model and I went along to work as a camera assist and met the sound recordists on set. During the shoot, one of the sound recordists got a phone call to say that his wife had gone into labour and he handed me the sound kit and told me I had to finish the day. I was kind of thrown in the deep in that day and it went okay and I ended up working as a sound recordist on the next season. It was definitely right place, right time, right circumstances. That was my first series that I worked on the whole series as a sound recordist. That was the biggest step up for me, that was when I bought equipment and said this is what I’m doing.
How long did it take to get consistent work as a sound recordist?
It took a couple of years, it was slow steps. There was one point where I was picking up odd sound recording jobs, odd camera assisting jobs and still working at the bar pulling beers.
What is the weirdest thing you’ve done in television?
I recently worked on Swedish Farmer Wants A Wife: Around the World. That was a different experience. They picked Swedish farmers that lived in different countries sent the film crew and sent some Swedish girls to date them. So the entire show is in Swedish and I’m there recording it with another Australian and couldn’t understand a word of it. At least we knew the quality was good!
What’s your best piece of advice for someone starting out in TV?
Ask a lot of questions…not when you’re rolling though (it’s important to be quiet)! Also, be helpful to everyone on set, not just your department. Those relationships that you nurture, they pay off in dividends later. Being a sound assistant is amazing training. The number one skill for reality TV is radio micing techniques. When you’ve got different outfits on different people every single day, you have to learn a lot of ways to make that sound good so being a sound assistant, you get exposed to that straight away.
Want to hear more stories from the people behind the TV shows you love? Check out my interviews with Lighting Cameraman, Paul Webb or Shooter Producer and Story Producer, Matt Hindson.
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2013 Maruti Omni limited edition launched
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With the intention of boosting sales among the buyers in entry-level van segment, Maruti Suzuki has added a limited edition variant to its Omni line-up. Maruti Omni is the first micro-van from Indian automaker Maruti Suzuki. It was introduced in 1984 and the manufacturer is still continuing its production. Primarily, the company introduced a 5-seater version and now, they come up with 8-seater version.
From the past 30 years the van comes powered by a 796cc engine. Currently, it is available in both LPG and petrol engines that come with the displacement of 796cc. The engine also has two valves per cylinder and 4-speed manual gearbox transmission. It has a Multi-Point Fuel Injection that plays a major role in reducing emissions and helps in returning best fuel efficiency. The capacity of the fuel tank is 35 litres and the engine is simple that churns out 37 bhp power and 62 Nm torque.
The limited edition Omni comes with various dealer-installed options as standard equipment such as a left wing mirror, a CD player with AUX and four speakers, floor mats and dual-tone seat covers. Maruti Suzuki is now offering much needed accessories with the Omni in its limited edition variant. At present, the company manages to sell around 5000 units of the Omni every month and this is a respectable number for a car which is in business since almost 3 decades now.
The Maruti Omni is available in a total of 5 variants with a starting price of Rs 2.48 lakh for the base non-metallic five-seater variant. This basic minivan offers a cargo variant, ambulance variant and family variant with a 5-seater and 8-seater version and a newly introduced limited edition variant.
Also see – Maruti plans to enter LCV segment with diesel Eeco or Omni
New Hyundai Elantra launched at Rs. 12.51 lakh
Mahindra Scorpio Intelli-Hybrid launched in India – Rs. 12.84 lakh, Hybrid technology
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Dwight Frye: 1930’s-1940’s
Posted bykkkaraoke December 15, 2011 Leave a comment on Dwight Frye: 1930’s-1940’s
While reading bio on Dwight Frye, “Dwight Frye’s Last Laugh” by his son, I found him as famous Broadway actor turned White Aryan victim under the Gangster Mafia Hollywood rule of films, I came across the change of films towards the years prior to end of World War II.
Movie: Mystery Ship, Columbia 1941, “Dwight Frye affected a German accent for his portrayal of the deported saboteur Rader. Mystery Ship was one of the films that “took advantage” of Frye’s “Aryan appearance” to cast him as a “villain” during the war years.
Now up until now, I just made my “own” observations with a light shining on his life through my eyes of Jews bashing, emasculating and destroying the White man… a very slow, and painful death not just for White man but his bewildered terrorized White family, whose only option today is to “suffer” under it.
I compared the movies he made over and over and kept seeing the Jewish hatred against a White man, a Christian Scientist who used alternative medicines.
And sure enough even his son writes of how Frye was now cast, “because of us (White) Aryan appearance as a VILLAIN during wars. What Jews had been doing in “secret” as a “conspiracy” against Whites, now comes out full force where even his son, who already died, sees it but never makes the connection to Jews, or Jew Commies.
The Jews in Hollywood used White Dwight for movies that made him display “nervous mannerisms and scream with authority.” That was to induce a reality for White men to become nervous inside, seek drug or alcohol to ease that pain, and then to “scream with authority,” howbeit a “silent scream.”
Book talks of movies such as Hitler’s Children in the 1940’s. I read the book. Matter of fact it came to me sort of as a miracle. I was in library and there was a book sale with books for $.50. And through all the books my hands just walked over and picked up this one. I was wise enough to put the author’s name in internet, and was written by a Jewish couple. So all we have is what the Jews want us to know, but didn’t the Jews lie voraciously, sadistically and chronically at Nuremberg trials such as :
Coverup that the Jewish Commie led Russians committed Katyn Massacre against Poland’s finest White men and blamed Germany. That lie was to remain “fact” during the investigation and trials and anyone that would suggest bringing it up was “silenced.” Jews have a way of “silenced” White man such as giving the world wide image of the White man… like John Wayne…. as the “strong silent type.” That means a White man not only will be persecuted and victimized but like Jesus must remain “silent,” under Jewish terror and tyranny.
Jews lied right on the witness stand about Whites turning Jews into lampshades, and like the “actors and actresses these Jews are” it was never true.
Jews lied about Whites turning them into bars of soap. Never happened and was exposed, but until today, one can hear these messages in radio broadcasts by Jewish media as if the Whites really did it. It is the Jews non-stop effort to make as they did to Dwight Frye…. the White Villain, while casting their own role in this Hollywood production we call “reality,” as “good” lawyers, “good’ doctors, “good Jewish agents,” “good if not Supremacists as Movie Moguls, “good” if not “Supremacist Jewish banksters, Jew stock brokers, Jew insurance agent, Supremacist Real Estate agents that robbed white people by “blockbusting” their neighborhoods with very violent, wicked and drugged up blacks and Mexicans.
Jews lied about gas chambers.
Jews liked about Anne Frank, and Anna van Dijk, lesbian frauds and both dying shameful deaths. One from having too many lice and getting Typhus, Anne Frank, and the other the only woman executed after World War II.
It is said that if a robber gets caught, he has probably commit 1000 other robberies. So for all the people in prison, multiply that times 1000 easy, and you get how many crimes were affected in our “home.” Picture if you lived in your house and you were victim to 1000 crimes, and you had to remain “silent” as Jews brainwashed us into being. If you talk or write, the Jews, like War-man in Canada will pose as one of us, and then turn us into FBI! Is our FBI, the Federal Bureau of Israel, or for a formerly White country.
Hitler’s Children was released at the height of the war to justify the horrible bombings of Germany, especially Dresden, melting people from their 1000 bombs.
Director: Edward Dmytryk, also wrote 8 books on Hollywood, including the recently-published Odd Man Out about his experiences as one of the Hollywood Ten.
The biography talks of the “witch hunt” after Communists in Hollywood. And to think we took the side of Jew Commies against the Germans who wanted to save the White race even Christianity. We spent how many millions of White men as bodybags for Jewish wars, and we continue to tease and taunt Iran, bullying them into fighting back, as Churchill did to Hitler. Now though the wars are over for Whites fighting each other. Jews are very confident they destroyed any semblance of attempt of us to unite again, and now push the Whites against brownish Moslems the “New Nazis”.
In the movie The Devil Pays Off, the star is J. Edward Bromberg refused to cooperate with the House on Un-American activities. He won notice as “Nazi Goebbels” in a “number” of WWII. So in other words, Hollywood was not only saturating the world with Hollywood stars that volunteered for World War II and used their Jewish made “fame” to control minds of our people to send our young White boys to war for Jewish “freedom!” Now that Jews are totally free to blanket as much crime on us and the world, Whites are no longer free.
Book talks of more heavy drinkers in horror films, suicides, early deaths, accidents.
White Dwight plays “Ziggy” in Don’t Talk, oddly a title which would put a silence on our White men. There is a “plant bombing” and Dwight says “Something went wrong. I just got through planting the charge in the first storage bin when the alarm system went off.”
When I compare this to 9/11 explosions and all these “explosions” like the Gulf Oil, or bridges collapsing, or earthquakes that seem fishy, it would be a piece of cake for Jews of Hollywood to orchestra in our “real life” experience as they did thousands and thousands of time on the Jew Hollywood screen. Whites do not know the difference between what they see on the screen and what the Jews print in their newspapers.
Also, “Ziggy” prepares to blow up a bridge. That is exactly what I thought happened to the bridge that collapsed in Minnesota right near the Republican Presidential Convention and Ron Paul Convention nearby. It was “exploded.” Any and every explosion, crisis, vaccine epidemic is to keep us constantly on edge, frightened as scared white children in our own home. It would be like the real Jewish Dracula living in your home, and creating as much havoc with you as a White person as he wants.
Moslems who couldn’t even taking flying lessons in airplanes, could never have masterminded 9/11 with such a complicated, intricate, plot. It had to be “smart” people, even the “smartest” in the world. We do not know all the truths of 9/11, but we do have Jews running news, TV, media, magazines so that everything we know about it, as of World War II is from Jews alone.
In Hitler’s Children Wiki even says it was a “Propaganda film.” As if Whites need even one more lie or cover up. Or to put us thru a fictitious emotional wringer, the easier way to “control” us. The movie also tries to bash the “Hitler Youth” of which today’s Pope Benedict was a member. From what I read in the book, the White Germans tried to save the severely intentionally degenerated White boys and girls, as my own son was degenerated in the USA. They tried to raise them to “not drink, not smoke’ not drug, drink juice, get fresh air and have character.” Something I guess Whites have been propaganded to despise such infringements on their “freedoms.” Jews don’t indulge, the live off the misery then incur in us.
In 1943, the movie “Hollywood’s Babylon II has the star, George Zucco going mad from playing so many Hollywood Horror films, dying in a “mad house,” and his wife and daughter committing suicide.
Odd but in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man this was “cut.”
Monster: Die? Never! Dr. Frankenstein created this body to be immortal! His son gave me a new brain, a clever brain. I will rule the world! I will live to witness the fruits of my wisdom for all eternity.
And we are leaving that out not on film, but in reality as Jews rule the world and us.
Another of Frye’s film has him saying “He said he’d blow up the dam!” Well, when do you suppose the Jews will get around to that in our reality?
In 1943, publicity (Jewish from New York Times) brainwashes us: For the movie Hangmen Also Die! which to me refers to White hangmen as far back as Civil War who hung criminal black as well as White men and forever will be bashed and labeled. Times writes:
From Hitler’s Secret Archives! (Exclamation point!) This script was smuggled out of Europe at risk of death! (sounds like another Jewish thriller they are posing as “real.”)..No wonder it is hailed as one of the most exciting pictures to come out of war!
MGM (Certainly all Jews) they released Hitler’s Madman.
Now remember that I read that even the bombing of Warsaw was done against Hitler’s wishes and he was somehow injected by his lunatic Dr. Morrell probably with “jungle disease” 30 feet underground in a sealed chamber where Hitler lived in the Bunker. Now that I write about the “Bunker” the Jewish radio talk show host Michael Levine says to be broadcasting from the “Bunker.” He is very friendly with White Sean Hannity, who conspires with Jews against Whites.
For these movies the cast was “top notch.” Top casting to get the Whites to pay good $$$ in tight times to sit in their chair, as if it were an electric chair, and watch 2 hours of steady anti White propaganda.
In another movie, the plot has it that a White man invented the transmitter. And then after wounding him runs a tractor over him. Sounds like what the Polish Jews of Israel did to White Rachel Corrie in Israel.
The book talks of The Jolson Story, being a “mega-hit.” (most of Frye’s were not.) Why was “Jolson” a “mega-hit.” Because Jolson was played by a Jew the first Jew in the first talkie film after Jews stole the White man’s, Thomas Alva Edison’s invention, the movie machine, and ran to Hollywood with it to avoid prosecution. It left Alva spending the rest of his life in Jewish courts trying to gain justice, and after his death his wife’s life. In the meantime, Jews could care less. They had their Jewish Mafia buddies in the New York Court System, tying up Edison in “knows,” so they could make thousands of movies to use against Whites… even unto a World War. How horrible and catastrophic for us to be used like that. In movie “Jolson” the Jew paints his face black, sings “Mammy” to manipulate White audience to “feeling sorry for blacks,” and we are still doing so today, as Black women make twice as much as I can.
Book talks about movie Sky Bandits, Frye is first viewed holing a “Large White Rabbit” in background. I have written over and over again how Jews use “background” for subliminal messages and brainwashing us Whites. One of the characters “kills” the Large White Rabbit. At that time, the White Race certainly appeared “large” on the world’s planet, with all our labor, inventions, buildings, and rather than work for a living, the Jews waited until we got it built up, and then had the big JEWISH TAKEOVER.
In a yellow Chinese type of movie, Drums of Fu Man Chu, One of Chu’s henchman has a forehead scar as he had lobotomy which robbed him of his “will power.” Our White Will has been robbed, even more than they robbed our gold or now have us so deeply in debt the Jews could confiscate all the White gold in the entire world, and leave us to starve to death once they demand payment for all the credit we owe them.
In movie Alibi for Murder, here is a clip.
Frye’s role of Alvin McBride is one of his most interesting screen characterizations. McBride, the murdered Foster’s assistant, is deemed a suspect early on as he was the first to come upon the scientist’s body. While being questioned, McBride exposes Foster as not a great scientist, but a “butcher,” adding:
You spoke of him working for humanity, contributing to mankind. He never CURED, HE KILLED. Do you know “why” he got the Nobel Peace prize? (like Obama) For his work in steel? But what sort of steel? Steel to be used for construction? Not at all. Not even the Nobel Prize committee knew it, but his invention, Fosterite Steel the world calls it, is intended only for making big guns, for war, for slaughtering people. He was civilization’s Public Enemy number two and deserved to be killed.
(When I think how the USA bullies little countries like Palestine, where relatives of Jesus live, not like the Polish Jew imposters “Occupying Israel,” it saddens me that they have “rocks” to throw or their bodies to give up as suicide bombers, while the Jews and USA have mega bombs against these people who in comparison to us are like cave men. How ruthless. And the more we go out and do this, the more we will see our own White children suffer at home. It is only the Jewish children who are exempt for they live in the “Kingdom of Heaven” called America, as they did in Poland’s Kingdom of Heaven for 900 years.)
Foster’s work was child’s play compared to yours. You took the steel and turned it into instrument so of destruction. It was for you he was inventing even greater horror than the world has yet known. He was merely a puppet, but you, you’re the real enemy of society.
Again, the book refers to how the (Jews) used White Dwight for portrayals of fear and displays of neurotic traits. These were the traits the Jews wanted to instill in White men and women.
Hitherto, Frye has met with violent death in every feature in which he has been seen. He has been stabbed, hung, thrown from speeding trains, tossed over cliffs, drowned and torn to bits by wild animals … all for the sake of (Jewish) film art.
That isn’t art to single a man out like that, but Jewish hatred against us, and Jews have used “reverse psychology” on us and the world making the White man the villain like Dwight Frye, and the Jews not the horror monster they are, but “poor victim Jews,” the people that own the world and claim it to be a religion. Their religious disguise is coming off and we see them as the ruthless business tycoons against Whites in their “TAKEOVER” of Europe, America and the World. That is exactly what the Jews accused poor white Hitler of doing. Jewish Reverse Psychology!
In 1933 Invisible Man, Claude Rains delivers:
“Even the moon’s frightened of me—frightened to death! the whole world’s frightened to death!”
And those words are now true in our reality as we are frightened to death 24/7 and can’t even get on an airplane without being accused of being a terrorist. While the Jews roam freely to do all the destruction and damage against us that they want.
One of the movie reviews calls Dwight Frye, “unnatural victim of nature’s freak.” Dwight wasn’t a freak. He was sane, devout, religious man, loyal to his wife, caretaker of his mother, and mentor for his son. Jews wanted to bash that as they rule the Medical World to keep us sick and at their mercy where we get into predicaments that we will “do anything” to get comfort from our suffering. And the Jews make us sick, and control us at our most dire moments. They run hospitals, and nursing homes, so the White elderly who probably make up a large portion of the USA population are now under sadistic Jewish rule, and you know the horror stories of Jewish monopoly nursing homes.
I once worked with a Christian Science gal whose father was in a public nursing home. She was so scared for his health and life went there every day for 3 years for her father was being treated so badly. And we “pay” for this treatment. Jews keep us “scared to death.” I’m sure it will say so on the White Race’s Death Certificate: Cause of death: Scared to death by Jews! And Jews will laugh and the non-Whites will laugh as the 92% of the world’s population will divide up the White’s goods as the White Roman Soldiers divided up Jesus’ garments after he was crucified. Jesus wore expensive clothes, that were woven into one piece, hence their cost.
Jews have already begun the process as far back as the late 1800’s with the TAKEOVER of our newspapers and replacing White Protestant Heterosexual Males, with Jewish raced, pro-homosexuals. See our Supreme Court for which each White is subject to their laws. Not one White Heterosexual Christian Male! They are “dividing” up our White Goods as in picture above as White man hangs on the cross. Jews have turned the world against the Whites, as Jews turned all of Europe against Poles for 900 years.
The book talks about the “sadism” that Hollywood used was “haunting!” Jews are sadists.
Lines were cut from restored Frankenstein films: “In the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to be God!”
Jews collectively are the human gods and even many White Protestants worship them on earth. Christians have an image to how to worship God, but since God is invisible, they transfer that worship to Jewish mortals or even when Christianity teaches to love others, we have been brainwashed by Jews into loving blacks, browns, Jews, “instead” of ourselves.
Dwight’s last unrealized spectacular film Wilson, about President Wilson who is the poor White man conned by Jews for the TAKEOVER of the White treasury, labor, and instead of going into a government bank, the Jews made the Federal Reserve Bank, which is a Jewish bank run by war and blood money since 1913.
Dwight was to play Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker. Doesn’t that sound odd? Wilson signs over our $$$ to Jews, and the Secretary of War is also in the movie. How do war and $$$ go together?
White Dwight treated his wife and son Buddy to an evening at the movies to “celebrate the signing for the part of Baker, (Secretary of War) when he suffered his heart attack.”
He died on the bus going home. He had no autopsy that I know of. We need autopsies done for Whites and also done by “pro-Whites” and not Jews and their non-White soldiers of medicine whose interest is for the BIG TAKEOVER!
Posted bykkkaraoke December 15, 2011 Posted inUncategorizedTags: 9/11, anti-semite, David Duke, genocide, Glenn Beck, Holocaust, Illegal Immigration, Jew, KKK, Occupy Wall Street, Racist, Stormfront, Tea Party, White Race, World War
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Terms Starting with X
X-Acto knife
(ex act toe) N. A small, razor-sharp knife with a disposable blade used (in electronics) to remove solder bridges between IC pins, clean up PCB tracks, and trim fingernails. The X-Acto knife is part of the universal troubleshooting kit needed by every developer. Other components include duct tape, 10-kΩ resistors, and Super Glue.
The indispensible X-Acto knife, with the usual hint of blood on its tip
(ex eighty-six) abbr. See 80x86.
(zy links) N. The world's leading provider of programmable logic devices, with 50% of the market in 2002. Founded in 1984, Xilinx pioneered the FPGA and now also sells a line of CPLDs. Listed by Fortune Magazine in 2001 and 2002 as one of the best 100 companies to work for.
XOFF
(ex off) n. A special character transmitted in-band to request a resumption of a previously paused flow of incoming data. ASCII 0x13. See also XON, software flow control.
(ex or) n. A special character transmitted in-band to request a pause in the flow of incoming data. ASCII 0x11.
Note that because the XON character is sent in the communications channel, binary data sent across the channel must be stripped of all 0x11s. This is typically done by inserting an escape code before the binary data's 0x11 is sent so that the device on the other end will know not to interpret that next byte as an XON. See also XOFF, software flow control.
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Title: L’Année des méduses (1984)
Actors: Barbara Nielsen, Béatrice Agenin, Bernard Giraudeau, Caroline Cellier, David Jalil, Jacques Perrin, Jean-Paul Dubarry, Philippe Lemaire, Pierre Vaneck, Valérie Kaprisky
Directors: Christopher Frank
Countries: France
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File #: RES 9836
Title: Public Hearing and action on resolution authorizing the execution of documents necessary to release a portion of an existing water easement located at 8000 NE 16th Street, which has been declared surplus to the City’s needs and is no longer required for providing continued public utility service; the granting and recording of such release being deemed in the best interest of the public. 1. Staff Report. 2. Motion to open public hearing. (*Note: Three-minute limit per person or recognized community organization.) 3. Receive public testimony. 4. Motion to close public hearing. 5. Council discussion and action.
Attachments: 1. Agenda Memo, 2. A. Easement Exhibit, 3. B. Vicinity Map, 4. Resolution
Public Hearing and action on resolution authorizing the execution of documents necessary to release a portion of an existing water easement located at 8000 NE 16th Street, which has been declared surplus to the City’s needs and is no longer required for providing continued public utility service; the granting and recording of such release being deemed in the best interest of the public.
1. Staff Report.
2. Motion to open public hearing.
(*Note: Three-minute limit per person or recognized community organization.)
3. Receive public testimony.
4. Motion to close public hearing.
5. Council discussion and action.
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Relative to the organization of alternative treatment centers.
03/21/2019 1004s
05/15/2019 2061EBA
AN ACT relative to the organization of alternative treatment centers.
SPONSORS: Sen. Kahn, Dist 10; Sen. Cavanaugh, Dist 16; Sen. Dietsch, Dist 9; Sen. Hennessey, Dist 5; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Rep. Edwards, Rock. 4
This bill permits alternative treatment centers to organize as business corporations and limited liability companies, and provides the procedure for alternative treatment centers organized as voluntary corporations to convert to business corporations or limited liability companies.
05/15/2019 2061EBA 19-0856
1 Public Health; Use of Cannabis for Therapeutic Purposes; Definitions; Alternative Treatment Center. Amend RSA 126-X:1, I to read as follows:
I. "Alternative treatment center" means a domestic business corporation organized under RSA 293-A, a domestic limited liability company organized under RSA 304-C, or a not-for-profit [entity] voluntary corporation organized under RSA 292 that is registered under RSA 126-X:7 and that acquires, possesses, cultivates, manufactures, delivers, transfers, transports, sells, supplies, and dispenses cannabis, and related supplies and educational materials, to qualifying patients and alternative treatment centers.
2 Public Health; Use of Cannabis for Therapeutic Purposes; Departmental Administration; Application Form. Amend RSA 126-X:7, IV(a)(4) to read as follows:
(4) The name, address, and date of birth of each principal officer and board member of the alternative treatment center. The board of directors or board of managers, as applicable, for the [nonprofit] alternative treatment center shall include at least one physician, advance practice registered nurse, or pharmacist licensed to practice in New Hampshire and at least one patient qualified to register as a qualifying patient. The majority of board members or managers, as applicable, shall be New Hampshire residents. A medical professional listed in this subparagraph may be a member of the alternative treatment center board of directors or managers, as applicable, but shall not maintain an ownership interest in the center.
3 Public Health; Requirements for Alternative Treatment Centers. Amend RSA 126-X:8, I to read as follows:
I. An alternative treatment center [shall] may be operated on a for-profit or not-for-profit basis for the benefit of its patients. An alternative treatment center need not be recognized as a tax-exempt organization by the Internal Revenue Service.
4 New Paragraphs; Public Health; Use of Cannabis for Therapeutic Purposes; Alternative Treatment Centers; Requirements. Amend RSA 126-X:8 by inserting after paragraph XVIII the following new paragraphs:
XIX. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, an alternative treatment center shall be subject to RSA 293-A if organized as a domestic business corporation, RSA 304-C if organized as a domestic limited liability company, and RSA 292 if organized as a voluntary corporation.
XX. An alternative treatment center organized as a voluntary corporation under RSA 292 may, on or before December 31, 2019, convert from a voluntary corporation under RSA 292 to either a domestic business corporation organized under RSA 293-A or a limited liability company organized under RSA 304-C in any of the following ways:
(a) By adopting a plan of entity conversion in accordance with RSA 293-A or RSA 304-C, as applicable, provided that in each such conversion shall be authorized by a vote of 2/3 of the members of the board of directors at a meeting duly called for the purpose or by unanimous written consent.
(b) By adopting a plan of merger in accordance with RSA 293-A for which the domestic business corporation shall be the surviving entity, provided that, such merger shall be authorized by a vote of 2/3 of the members of the board of directors of the alternative treatment center at a meeting duly called for the purpose or by unanimous written consent.
(c) By adopting a plan of merger in accordance with RSA 304-C for which the domestic limited liability company shall be the surviving entity, provided that, such merger shall be authorized by a vote of 2/3 of the members of the board of directors at a meeting duly called for the purpose or by unanimous written consent.
XXI. Articles of entity conversion or articles of merger, as applicable, shall be signed and submitted to the secretary of state pursuant to RSA 293-A or RSA 304-C, as applicable, and the secretary of state shall approve all such filings submitted pursuant to this section.
XXII. The secretary of state shall certify such articles of entity conversion or articles of merger and shall provide them to the department. Upon receipt, the department shall update the existing licenses held by the converted or merged alternative treatment center.
XXIII. For the purposes of converting or merging an alternative treatment center pursuant to this section, notwithstanding any provision in the articles of agreement or alternative treatment center license applications to the contrary, the members of an alternative treatment center's board of directors may determine that a plan of entity conversion or merger is consistent with its corporate charter, and such voluntary corporation may surrender its articles of agreement in connection with the plan of entity conversion or merger.
XXIV. Any alternative treatment center choosing to convert or merge pursuant to this section shall obtain an independent fair market valuation of its total assets as of June 30, 2019. The valuation of the total assets of such alternative treatment center, if positive, shall be distributed to one or more charitable organizations solely for charitable purposes. The director of charitable trusts shall receive a copy of the valuation and may file any objection relating thereto with the court within 60 days. Except as set forth in this section and notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, no portion of the assets of such alternative treatment center after the conversion or merger, as applicable, shall be deemed to be charitable assets.
5 Voluntary Corporations; Powers of Corporations; Change of Name; Amending Articles; Conversion and Merger. Amend RSA 292:7 to read as follows:
292:7 Change of Name; Amending Articles.
I. Any corporation now or hereafter organized or registered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and any existing corporation which may have been so organized or registered, may change its name, increase or decrease its capital stock or membership certificates, merge with or acquire any other corporation formed pursuant to this chapter, or amend its articles of agreement, by a majority vote of such corporation's board of directors or trustees, at a meeting duly called for that purpose, and by recording a certified copy of such vote in the office of the secretary of state and in the office of the clerk of the town or city in this state which is its principal place of business. In the case of a foreign nonprofit corporation registered in New Hampshire, a copy of the amendment or plan of merger, certified by the proper officer of the state of incorporation, shall be filed with the secretary of state, together with the fee provided in RSA 292:5. The surviving corporation in a merger shall continue to have all the authority and powers vested in the merging corporations, including any powers previously conferred upon them by the legislature.
II. An alternative treatment center registered pursuant to RSA 126-X and organized under this chapter may, pursuant to RSA 126-X:8, XX, convert to either a domestic corporation organized under RSA 293-A or a limited liability company organized under to RSA 304-C, and may merge with a domestic business corporation organized under RSA 293-A or a limited liability company organized under RSA 304-C.
6 New Paragraph; Business Corporations; Conversion; Entity Conversion Authorized. Amend RSA 293-A:9.50 by inserting after paragraph (f) the following new paragraph:
(g) Alternative treatment centers registered pursuant to RSA 126-X and organized pursuant to RSA 292 may become a domestic corporation pursuant to a plan of conversion in accordance RSA 126-X:8, XX and this subdivision. The alternative treatment center shall be deemed to be a domestic unincorporated entity for purposes of applying RSA 293-A:9.50 through RSA 293-A:9.56, except that approval of the conversion shall be as outlined in RSA 126-X:8, XX.
7 Limited Liability Companies; Statutory Conversion; Statutory Conversions of Other Business Entities. Amend RSA 304-C:149, I to read as follows:
I. Any other business entity, including alternative treatment centers pursuant to RSA 126-X:8, XX, may make a statutory conversion of its business organization form to the limited liability company business organization form under this act by complying with the requirements of this section and with applicable law governing the other business entity. Approval of a conversion of an alternative treatment center pursuant to this paragraph shall be as outlined in RSA 126-X:8, XX.
8 New Paragraph; Limited Liability Companies; Statutory Conversion; Approvals of Statutory Conversion. Amend RSA 304-C:149 by inserting after paragraph VIII the following new paragraph:
IX. In the case of the conversion of an alternative treatment center registered under RSA 126-X and organized pursuant to RSA 292, such conversion shall be approved by the board of directors in accordance with RSA 126-X:8, XX.
9 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
VETOED June 25, 2019
Veto Sustained September 19, 2019
March 5, 2019 Senate Hearing
March 21, 2019 Senate Floor Vote
April 23, 2019 House Hearing
SB145 Revision: 6441 Date: Dec. 2, 2019, 10:22 a.m.
SB145 Revision: 5931 Date: May 21, 2019, 3:33 p.m.
SB145 Revision: 5631 Date: March 21, 2019, 11:20 a.m.
March 5, 2019 Hearing: 03/05/2019, Room 100, SH, 02:00 pm; SC 12
March 21, 2019 Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2019-1004s, 03/21/2019; SC 14
March 21, 2019 Committee Amendment # 2019-1004s, RC 14Y-10N, AA; 03/21/2019; SJ 9
March 21, 2019 Ought to Pass with Amendment 2019-1004s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/21/2019; SJ 9
April 23, 2019 Public Hearing: 04/23/2019 02:00 pm LOB 302
Committee Report: Ought to Pass (Vote 16-3; RC)
May 8, 2019 Committee Report: Ought to Pass for 05/08/2019 (Vote 16-3; RC) HC 23 P. 14
May 8, 2019 Ought to Pass: MA VV 05/08/2019 HJ 15 P. 67
May 8, 2019 Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2019-2061e: AA VV 05/08/2019 HJ 15 P. 102
May 15, 2019 Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2019-2061e Adopted, VV, (In recess of 05/15/2019);
June 25, 2019 Vetoed by Governor 06/25/2019
Sept. 19, 2019 Notwithstanding the Governor's Veto, Shall SB 145 Become Law: RC 15Y-9N, Veto Sustained, lacking the necessary two-thirds vote; 09/19/2019; SJ 22
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And this mechanism allows them to become, effectively, an impromptu marketing team, for a piece of the action.
According to its release, the technology is simple and seamless for users. “Let’s say we have a fighter being featured in an event next week,” added Bell. “Let’s suppose he has 5,000 social media followers. He gains access through this platform to a unique digital storefront that can be linked into his social media, so his followers can just click and buy a ticket to watch him fight. Instantly. Conveniently. And, he is incentivized for his efforts. But it’s not just the fighters. We are equipping all of our followers and fans as well with the same capability. And no one is better at selling tickets to MMA fights than fighters and avid fans of the sport. Their passion is genuine. They make the best sales team.”
Is it working? Apparently so. In its latest event – which set new records for PPV sales – tickets sold through B2InstaStore accounts made up half of all ticket sales. That’s a knockout performance, especially considering this initiative was only launched about six weeks ago.
This is where it gets really exciting for B2Digital Inc (OTCMKTS:BTDG) shareholders. The company is moving rapidly toward the launch of the B2 Fighting Series app for OTT distribution. The company claims to be nearing the launch of this app on Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and the Android platform.
That would extend its reach by tens of millions of potential viewers.
In one of its most recent releases, the company announced that it is making progress toward the launch of its new B2 Fighting Series App in the $6.8 billion global OTT sports market, with the added notion that it may be close to launching it on Amazon Fire TV very soon.
“We are excited about the progress so far because it means we may be able to distribute as many as five of our biggest fall season LIVE PPV MMA events over one of the largest global OTT platforms in the world,” remarked Bell. “That has huge implications for the growth of our brand because we anticipate those events to draw a lot of new fans and followers.”
According to that release, BTDG is pursuing a unique monetization model for its OTT app product, with free download using an email address, no monthly subscription, and free access to all content other than LIVE PPV event content, which will be available for a PPV charge, and then made free 36 hours after the conclusion of the event.
In other words, it is actively positioning this breakthrough extension in distribution to maximize its impact on brand growth. A smart move with big potential implications for B2 as a household name in the making.
Competitive Position and Industry Growth
The other big key to this story is that there really isn’t any obvious competition. B2Digital Inc (OTCMKTS:BTDG) is the go-to play for farm league MMA action.
The mixed martial arts “sport of fighting” phenomenon is, by any reasonable account, the fastest growing major sport on the planet over the past decade. And it keeps gaining steam with millennials and gen-z fans, which makes it a major investable theme as well. The UFC rode that thesis to a multi-billion-dollar valuation over the course a short period, and B2 is actively working to ride those coattails to the top.
Over the past five years, the industry has continued to grow. According to IBIS World, the martial arts industry made $5 billion in total revenue in 2019. Every year about 3.6 million people actively participate in martial arts in the United States.
We should also note that BTDG is not just a live sports event company. It owns a series of major gyms to leverage the coproduct relationships from its branding with hardcore enthusiasts, which is promising in its own right.
That reinforces its ability to maintain its industry-dominant positioning as the ceiling continues to rise for the MMA sport.
Powerful Context
In all of this, we should also point out that B2Digital Inc (OTCMKTS:BTDG) is riding a pandemic tailwind at this point.
People are starved for live sports entertainment. The fact that the company has put together a powerful new marketing initiative in step with a rapidly expanding distribution platform in a soaring industry where it has market-dominant positioning relatively locked in creates a ton of prepotency given that this is all happening when BTDG is mid-stride in its biggest “season” of events in company history while fans are actively searching for live sports to consume.
The end result is a promising picture for a company that looks set to consistently post performance metrics that run rough-shod over prior company records over the months ahead.
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Highlights in history on this date:
1533 – King Henry VIII of England, defying Rome, marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
1802 – France’s Napoleon Bonaparte becomes president of the Italian Republic.
1848 – Last convict ship to Port Phillip in Victoria, the Marion, disembarks passengers.
1878 – Turkish steamer becomes the first ship to be sunk by a torpedo, fired from a Russian boat.
1915 – Inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurates US transcontinental telephone service.
1919 – The League of Nations is founded.
1924 – First Winter Olympics opens at Chamonix, France.
1942 – Thailand, allied to Japan, declares war on Britain and the United States.
1942 – Full mobilisation ordered in Australia because of the threat of Japanese invasion.
1947 – Italian-born gangster Al Capone dies of syphilis in Miami, aged 48.
1964 – The Beatles hit the top of the US charts with their single I Want to Hold Your Hand.
1971 – In Uganda, army officers depose Milton Obote and Idi Amin becomes president.
1971 – Charles Manson is found guilty of masterminding the killings of actress Sharon Tate and six others.
1974 – Start of major floods in Brisbane in which 13 die.
1986 – Voyager 2, sweeping to within 81,000km of Uranus, discovers a 10th ring, a 15th moon and a north pole that angles downward.
1994 – Without admitting guilt, singer Michael Jackson settles a lawsuit that alleged he molested a young boy.
1998 – US tourists, Thomas and Eileen Lonergan, are left behind by a scuba diving operator on a reef off Port Douglas, north Queensland. Their remains are never found.
2003 – Top-seed Serena Williams defeats her older sister Venus in Melbourne to win the women’s singles title at the Australian Open.
2005 – 258 Hindu pilgrims die in a stampede and fire during a pilgrimage to the Mandher Devi temple in western India.
2006 – Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians crowd polling stations in their first parliamentary elections in a decade. Hamas will emerge victorious.
2009 – Aboriginal leader Mick Dodson is named Australian of the Year.
2010 – Mental health expert Professor Patrick McGorry begins his term as Australian of the Year with controversy, describing detention centres for asylum seekers as “factories for producing mental illness”.
2015 – Rosie Batty, campaigner against domestic violence, is named Australian of the Year and dedicates the award to her son, Luke, who was killed by his father in February 2014.
2016 – A mural by British graffiti artist Banksy highlighting the alleged use of tear gas on asylum seekers from a Calais refugee camp appears near the French embassy in London.
2017 – Biomedical scientist and leading stem cell researcher, Emeritus Professor Alan Mackay-Sim, is named Australian of the Year.
2018 – US President Donald Trump threatens to stop aid to Palestine if they do not agree to partake in peace talks with Israel.
2019 – Divers Richard Harris and Craig Challen named the joint Australian of the Year for their work in helping to rescue 12 soccer players and their coach from a flooded cave in Thailand.
Today’s Birthdays:
Robert Burns, Scottish poet (1759-1796); W Somerset Maugham, English author (1874-1965); Virginia Woolf, English author (1882-1941); Corazon Aquino, former Philippines President (1933-2009); Etta James, American blues singer (1938-2012); Tobe Hooper, US horror film director (1943-2017); Ros Kelly, Australian politician (1948-); Kay Cottee, Australian sailor (1954-); Princess Charlene of Monaco (1978-); Xavi, Spanish footballer (1980-); Alicia Keys, US singer (1981-); Robinho (Robson de Souza), Brazilian footballer (1984-).
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“If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: “It seemed a good idea at the time.” – Dame Rebecca West, Irish-born author and journalist (1892-1983)
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Jurassic Park Video Reveals How The Dinosaurs Went From Stop Motion To CGI
Sarah El-Mahmoud
Published: Oct. 17. 2020 12:30 PM
There are big blockbuster movies, and then there are all-out cultural phenomena, industry-changing movies like Jurassic Park. The 1993 Steven Spielberg film is still talked about today and continues to be an ongoing franchise with the Jurassic World movies. Of course, Jurassic Park also sent shock waves throughout Hollywood for its groundbreaking effects.
At the 1994 Oscars, Jurassic Park earned three nominations and won all three in technical categories for Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Effects and Best Sound. In retrospect, The Academy is sharing a look back on the incredible story that allowed dinosaurs to roam on the big screen with computer technology. Take a look:
A look back at "Jurassic Park," the groundbreaking decision to create digital dinosaurs, and the impact it had on the future of movies. pic.twitter.com/suKZykh6NC
— The Academy (@TheAcademy) October 12, 2020
There’s an incredible story behind the dinos in Jurassic Park, and it remains relevant as CGI technology remains an omnipresent medium in moviemaking. As the filmmakers explain, Steven Spielberg’s original vision for Jurassic Park was to make it using only practical effects. He worked closely with Stan Winston Studios to make elaborate puppets of the different dinos, and he met with Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), asking if they could simply implement “motion blur” into scenes he’d capture through stop-motion technology with Tippett Studios.
Co-animator Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams and co-visual effects supervisor Mark Dippé became excited and fascinated with the idea of using the technology they had used in The Abyss and Terminator 2: Judgement Day to create CG dinosaurs, but the idea didn’t catch on right away with the Jurassic Park filmmakers. Characterized as a “Frankenstein shop” that was constantly experimenting with innovation in that day and age, the ILM guys decided to secretly make the dinosaurs anyway.
What they created was a groundbreaking “skin test” of a T-Rex roaming around that blew the minds of the few people in the room, including the current Lucasfilm President, Kathleen Kennedy. After that, CG was implemented into Jurassic Park in breathtaking ways that still stand the test of time.
27 years later, audiences are somewhat desensitized by the CG technology that has become familiar to big-budget blockbusters. But for many of us who remember our first experiences with Jurassic Park, we remember the jaw-dropping awe we felt when viewing the movie. It’s the kind of film that inspires one to look at the behind-the-scenes material and become truly immersed in the filmmaking process.
Jurassic Park also stands out for its use of practical effects as well, and the franchise still implements a mix of the technical and practical to this day. Jurassic World: Dominion is currently being filmed ahead of its new June 11, 2022 release date. Dominion will see the return of Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jake Johnson, BD Wong, Justice Smith and will officially bring back the original trio of Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum. While we wait, check out what movies are hitting the big screen next year with CinemaBlend’s 2021 release schedule.
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Halloween Legend John Carpenter Is A Gamer, And The Internet Can’t Get Enough
Dirk Libbey
Published: Nov. 25. 2020 9:02 AM
2020 has been a hell of a year that has led to many people largely isolating themselves at home. This has led to a need to keep one's self entertained, frequently through the use of TV, movies, or video games. If you're in need of something new to play now because you've played everything else you own, there's always the newest entry in the Assassin's Creed franchise. I haven't actually played it yet, I'm taking that perspective from one of the masters of horror, who is also a master gamer. John Carpenter says the new AC is pretty great, and fans are going a little wild.
While video games in general have largely aged with the generation that grew up playing home console games in the 1980s, and thus, the "average gamer" is not the child or the teenager that often comes to mind, John Carpenter, at 72, is certainly outside of the key demographic. Perhaps this is why seeing the writer/composer/director praise a popular video game now has fans doing a social media double take. While this isn't the first time Carpenter has talked gaming on social media, clearly many are taking notice for the first time.
Ok who had “Master of horror, John Carpenter, gives high praise to #AssassinsCreedValhalla” on their 2020 bingo card? https://t.co/ymrxMmMmoG
— Juan (@JJ_El_Estupid) November 25, 2020
The Assassin's Creed franchise has been running for over a decade and has a dozen entries in its console game history along with a handful of handheld and mobile spinoffs. The series has been largely a big hit with fans but in recent years there have been some issues with games feeling less polished than they should, or otherwise coming up short. The newest game, which focuses on Viking assassins, according to John Carpenter, fixes the problems and is another impressive installment in the series.
As game reviews go, John Carpenter's response may not be in depth, but it covers the bases and it will probably mean more to many fans that what traditional critics have to say. It's also causing some fans to suggest that if the great John Carpenter is a gamer, then the man needs to get involved in the industry. Imagine what Carpenter could do with a game adaption of one of his films considering how well he understands games from a player's perspective.
Can some elite video game company please get @TheHorrorMaster (John Carpenter) to Executive Produce a Official Halloween game??
An open world Halloweenie Haddonfield!
Retweet if you agree!@Halloweenmovies @RealMMyers78 @IGN #HalloweenKills https://t.co/FLokMg6RsT
— Mystery Moji Films ???? (@MysteryMoji) November 25, 2020
John Carpenter has some time to play more video games just like the rest of us. While he's been involved as a producer of the recent Halloween rebbot/sequel, those movies, like every other theatrical release, are on hold. And so, really what else should Carpenter do but hang out and play video games. It's what many of us would do in his position. We'd be so lucky to be able to do what he can.
John Carpenter, spending all his remake royalties checks on videogames in retirement, is the goal https://t.co/iGsbXOT4cW
— Peter M?Namara (@McNamaraPD) November 25, 2020
And John Carpenter's praise for the new Assassin's Creed game is not one sided. While the man behind Halloween is praising the game, the people behind the game are equally in awe of John Carpenter. He gets praised in Italian, because the best games in the Assassin's Creed series were focused on the Italian Renaissance time period and the style has sort of stuck.
Thank you, Mentore! You have been an inspiration to us all, so your praise truly means the world to us! https://t.co/f7cAQRGjNH
— Assassin's Creed (@assassinscreed) November 25, 2020
As somebody who has largely moved on from the Assassin's Creed games, I have to say John Carpenter's endorsement certainly has me considering giving the new one a try.
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Alex Ovechkin selected as EA Sports’ NHL 21 cover athlete
EA Sports announced on Monday that Ovechkin will be the cover athlete for its NHL 21 video game set to release on Oct. 16. For the second time in his career, the Capitals’ superstar will hold the honor and joins Jonathan Toews as the only two-time cover athletes in the game’s history.
Recognize Greatness with The Great Eight himself 🏒🔥 @ovi8 is your #NHL21 global cover athlete! 💪 pic.twitter.com/OdToWCZU0O
When learning the news, Ovechkin shared his appreciation and of course had to crack a joke in classic Ovi fashion.
“It’s a huge honor to be on the cover of NHL 21 for the second cover in my career,” he said. “More importantly, I’m glad I’m looking just as good on the cover this year as I did in 2007!!!”
EA Sports made the announcement with a powerful video it released on Twitter, citing Ovechkin’s accomplishments and impact on the league as why he was ultimately chosen for the honor.
The narrator of the video walks viewers through Ovi’s incredible career. The video opens with images from his childhood and early years in the league and paints the picture of the young Russian star moving overseas to chase his dreams, barely speaking the language.
It progresses to show highlights from his playing career – both actual footage and video game recreations of those moments. EA Sports then recognized Ovi for his impact on the game beyond his own play by referencing the future generation of hockey players he inspired.
NHL 20’s cover athlete Auston Matthews had a cameo appearance where he tells a story of watching Ovechkin play when he was just a kid in the stands.
“I was at that game,” Matthews said. “That memory has just been kind of engraved in my mind. It was probably the greatest goal I’ve ever seen.”
The narrator then mentions Ovi’s critics – the ones who said he wasn’t the greatest because he had never won the cup – and his ability to silence them and remind them that the league wouldn’t be the same without him.
The video even features a clip of Ovechkin asking Sidney Crosby who he thought would win the Hart Memorial Trophy. Crosby responds, “you,” showing that even his greatest rivals recognize how much he means to the game.
Ovi’s history-altering career and inspiring story led EA Sports to select him as the lead representative for their innovative game, which will now feature the new “Be A Pro” experience to give players the chance to live the life of an NHL star both on and off the ice. EA Sports says the game will allow players to, “Impress the front office, go early on draft day, and chase greatness as players earn a spot on the first line, compete for the Stanley Cup, and become the league’s next best,” just like Ovechkin did in his career.
“Our community has been asking for an invigorating Be A Pro experience that puts them in the same spotlight as their favorite NHL stars, like Alex Ovechkin,” said Sean Ramjagsingh, Executive Producer of NHL 21. “Ovechkin’s gameplay legacy, on and off the ice, is helping us to bring the next generation of EA SPORTS NHL gameplay to life with NHL 21.”
The NHL 21 Great Eight Edition will be released on Oct. 16 for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 and is now available for preorder.
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Alex Ovechkin checked off another box on his career résumé on Monday when he became just the second player in NHL history to grace the cover of EA Sports’ NHL series twice. Ovi’s first appearance on the cover was in 2007.
Ovechkin isn’t the only player from the area to recently be named a cover athlete for one of EA Sports’ newest games. Earlier this summer, Baltimore Ravens quarterback and reigning NFL MVP Lamar Jackson was announced as the cover athlete for Madden NFL 21.
Following Monday’s reveal of Ovechkin on the cover of NHL 21, the Capitals official Twitter posted a side-by-side photo of the two designs, tagging the Ravens account with the caption “It’s a DMV thing.”
The exchange was a fun one between two teams less than 50 miles from one another. While the Capitals and Ravens don’t play in the same city, there are still plenty of fans who support both teams. Whether Baltimore is in the ‘DMV’ is a debate for another time…
What can’t be debated, though, is both the Ravens and Capitals have a player that sports the No. 8 on gamedays that is one of the best athletes in their respective sports. While Ovechkin is on the backend of his legendary career, Baltimore fans hope the 23-year-old Jackson has yet to even come close to reaching his full potential.
First up in our look around the sports world, athletes and celebrities from all over celebrated Kobe Bryant’s birthday in their own ways over the weekend.
The Phillies’ Bryce Harper sported a Bryant jersey underneath his own for gameday vs. the Braves, rapper Drake showed off his Kobe shoe collection on Instagram and Diana Taurasi put up a season-high 34 pts for Phoenix in a custom mamba jersey.
Diana Taurasi wore a custom Mercury jersey on Mamba’s birthday 🙏 @highlighther (via @phoenixmercury, @wnba)
Next up, the disrespect is real as Celtics fans showed up virtually in the stands with brooms in their hands as Boston completed a first-round series sweep against the Philadelphia 76ers. Absolutley savage!
Lastly, it’s official! NHL 21 released their official trailer for The Great 8 edition of the game with the one and only Alex Ovechkin on the cover. Congrats Ovi!
Recognize Greatness with #NHL21 available worldwide October 16th 🏒🎮 Pre-order NHL 21 Great Eight Edition and get 3 Days Early Access 👀
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The Long Wait for Advances in Battery Technology
09.Nov.2020 . 3 min read
Phones, cars, tablets, and other tech advance by leaps and bounds every single year. Since the iPhone was launched in 2007, for example, we’re now on the twelfth edition of the model. Announcements of new and exciting products seem like a monthly event.
The lithium-ion batteries that power these devices, however, haven’t changed for decades. We’re still using the same basic tech with little to no improvements. Think about it: your old Nokia 3310 used to last days before you needed to charge it again, while you’d be lucky to get a full day out of your smartphone.
While people have been pessimistic about major developments in the battery industry, things may change very soon. There are some exciting changes in the pipeline that may revolutionize how we power up our devices.
Stunting Growth in the Tech World
While you can now get battery powered lawn mowers that can mow a decent sized lawn on a single charge and comparable devices that do last longer, this is mostly due to advancements in other areas of the products, making them more energy efficient at what they do.
Better batteries will equal better products, period. You get devices that can do more and last longer, purely battery powered transportation without the anxiety that you’ll end up stranded in the middle of nowhere, and energy storage solutions for data centres that are more efficient and friendly to the environment. The list goes on.
Therefore, the lack of development in the basic lithium-ion battery is seriously hampering growth in the tech world. So why has it proved so difficult to improve the basic lithium-ion battery design?
Quartz explains the energy problem really well using a loaf of sliced bread analogy. One loaf is an anode, the other a cathode. Depending on the state (charging or using energy), the flow of lithium ions go to and for from the electrodes. The capacity of a battery is essentially determined by how fast this happens.
The problem is in turning up that speed. Attempts to do this too quickly has led to quick breakdowns of the batteries, which is a) frustrating and 2) potentially dangerous. The good news? There seems to be a sliver of light at the end of the tunnel.
Is Change Coming?
Several companies and academics have made huge strides in battery technology in recent years. Hailaing Wang, lead researcher of a group of Yale scientists, published a paper detailing the potential of high-capacity batteries based on deeply cyclable lithium metal anodes.
Wang describes the exciting development as an aggressive attempt to extract energy from 80-90% of the lithium through a deep-cycling process. They did this by immersing a glass fibre separator in a lithium nitrate solution prior to the battery being assembled. During operation, they observed that the slow release of said lithium nitrate and its subsequent decomposition greatly boosted overall performance.
Ionic Materials, based in Woburn, Massachusetts, is tackling the problem from a different angle. They’re looking to use an ionically conductive polymer as a replacement for the standard liquid electrolyte. The idea is to get rid of the highly flammable liquid with a material that is solid, capable of withstanding higher temperatures.
This development would allow, in theory, for greater capacity batteries. This would be an ideal development for the car industry, for example, where current batteries are not enough for longer car journeys. And for those of you who suffer from exploding smartphones (yes, it happens), this is a fantastic development indeed.
Ionic Materials CEO Mike Zimmerman hopes that his approach will circumvent one potential roadblock: manufacturing. He plans to license the technology, which means production at scale won’t be an issue for him.
This is something that academics face all the time; without the leverage and tech of companies like Apple or Tesla, commercial production is nearly impossible. Is a licensed approach the way of the future?
We May Have to Wait a Little Longer
Whilst the proposed improvements to batteries are certainly promising, we’re ultimately some way off a new revolutionary product hitting the market. That’s the frustrating reality.
Wang’s team, for example, has admitted that while there’s good progress, they’re far off a commercial product. And Toyota, who have poured vast resources into high-capacity solid state batteries, announced it’s having issues developing a sellable model.
The reality is this: we’re seeing some real progress behind the scenes, which is far more than what’s happened in previous decades. However, we’re likely to be stuck with battery packs, frequent charging, and dying smartphones for a while yet.
Darren Sherwood
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Nixie Tube Clock
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Today, the story of Ahmed Mohammed has been doing the rounds. I suppose you could even say it’s gone “viral”, as I believe is the modern parlance. A tl;dr for those who missed it: 14-year old kid and electronics enthusiast takes a homemade digital clock into school to show to his teachers. Far from being impressed at his ingenuity and enthusiasm for technology, they decide it looks too much like a bomb and so the police are called. All of which begs the question, would this have happened if he was white? A certain clickbait news website picked up on this idea with a headline “7 Kids Not Named Mohamed Who Brought Homemade Clocks to School And Didn’t Get Arrested”, upon reading which I realised — hey, that’s me! So I thought this seemed as good a time as any to dig out the old photos of the nixie tube clock I made back in 2010 — something I’ve been meaning to do for a while.
And yes, I took this into school to show my electronics teacher. And no, I wasn’t arrested!
This is a nixie tube. It’s a neon gas filled tube containing an anode grid and several symbol (in this case number) shaped cathodes. When a negative voltage is applied to one of the cathodes, the neon in its proximity is excited and glows. It’s a very pretty type of display since the symbols are bent out of metal rather than formed of straight line segments, so the numbers have a very natural and appealing shape. The tubes I used were soviet surplus ИН-16 tubes.
For the physical design of the clock, I wanted to go for a slightly steampunk look, using copper pipes. I soldered this up out of 15mm plumbing pipe and joints, and the idea was that I’d thread all the wires through the pipes so the tubes were sticking out the top. Ultimately I planned to make a wooden box — stained mahogany — for the electronics with this sticking out of the top.
Trying to fit all of those wires through 15mm pipe was a real pain!
To drive them, I commoned up all of the anodes and put a high voltage NPN transistor on each cathode.
In hindsight, I could have grouped the cathodes and had a high side switch to each anode, then scanned through them, much like one would do with a multi-digit seven segment display (check out the wiring of these 4-digit displays for example) but I didn’t think of that at the time and probably wouldn’t have been able to manage the gate drive anyway. (Give me a break, I was still a high school kid at the time!)
Here I am testing the drive circuit. I know that isn’t a real time, I just picked random digits! It was powered here (and indeed onwards) from a crude mains isolation setup: I stepped the mains down with a transformer to low voltage DC, and took two taps off that: one went through an identical transformer in reverse to step it back up to isolated 230VAC (then rectified and smoothed) and the other went to a rectifier/regulator circuit to provide 5VDC for the digital electronics.
At this point the photo album was inexplicably interrupted by a photo of one of the mice I had at the time. She gave birth to 13 pups shortly after.
Here’s the circuit with some of the digital electronics. A PIC microcontroller was the brains of it. (The colourful twisted wires are for in-circuit programming.) It drove the 10’s of hours and 10’s of minutes directly, whereas the digits, to save on microcontroller outputs, were connected up to 4017B decade counters. These were clocked and reset by the PIC, requiring only two outputs each.
It took pride of place on our mantelpiece for 24 hours to test for mistakes in my code, and that it kept time reasonably well. The speaker was added to make it “tick”. You can also see the crude isolation transformer setup on the left.
My plan next was to make a PCB for the circuit and make a box for it to go in. But after a brief trip into school to show it off to my teacher, I took it into London Hackspace to work on it — and perhaps solicit some advice on the woodwork side of it — but shortly after that it disappeared! Perhaps it got deleted in a fit of rage tidying, who knows…
Looking back, it’s kind of embarrassing to see how past me did things. Notably the mass-of-wires breadboarding and the bombsite of a workbench while working with mains voltage. There are plenty of things I’d do differently too – probably an SMPS to drive the nixies to save on transformers, commoning up the cathodes and scanning the display, using an RTC (this just used the PIC’s built in clock so kept time really badly!) and in hindsight that copper pipe should /really/ have been grounded, with the single insulated cable running through it at 300VDC. But hey, you live and learn. Five years on, I’m older and wiser. Nothing now remains of this project but the photos and an unused bottle of mahogany wood stain. The hardware all went missing, the code is long gone and the schematics only live on as vague recollections in my head. And it will probably remain so — I have little motivation to make a clock now (where would I put it? why would I need one practically everything shows the time these days?) and plenty of others have done nixie clocks such that they’re almost commonplace nowadays, so the novelty of it has somewhat worn off…
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anonsays:
What type of transistor did you use ?
alecjwsays:
I don’t remember the part number! it was a TO92 packaged 300V NPN though
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Stocks: 8 Facts Investors Should Know About Guns
Posted: March 1, 2018/By: Brian Curcio
Guns are as American as apple pie with huge stocks like Smith & Wesson. But unlike pie, they kill hundreds of innocent American children every year. When it comes to a subject that carries such morbidity and seriousness, being informed is essential. This Thursday, we are not spotlighting an industry. We are using spotlighting guns and what matters when it comes to them: the facts.
1. Most gun owners support common sense gun reform.
Over 85 percent of gun owners support universal background checks, compared to 83 percent of non–gun owners.
2. Gun ownership is falling, yet there are more guns being produced than ever before.
In 1986, slightly less than 50 percent of American households had guns. New gun production was approximately 3 million units annually with limited excess stock. This figure stayed relatively steady until the mid-2000s, when it suddenly skyrocketed, along with the stocks of gun companies.
Today, only about 40 percent of households own a gun. Since 2012, the number of new guns appearing each year has risen to over 12 million.
3. Only in the US do we react to mass shootings by relaxing gun laws.
After the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, 93 laws were passed in 27 different states liberalizing gun laws. These laws allowed citizens to bring firearms them into churches, schools, and use them in self defense while intoxicated. Consequentially, school gun deaths in the US more than doubled. It went from 17 in the 18 months before Sandy Hook to 41 in the 18 months after.
Ironically, stocks in gun companies increases after mass shootings as the public anticipates substantial gun reform.
4. The US has ⅓ of the world’s mass shootings.
And only 5 percent of the global population. That 5 percent however, own more than 40 percent of privately owned guns in the world.
5. Your likelihood of being murdered dramatically increases if you live in a state with lax gun laws.
This is particularly true if you’re a law enforcement officer. Studies show that cops are far more likely to be killed on duty in pro-gun states.
6. While gun homicides command media attention, suicide is the number one type of gun-related death in the US.
Comprising over 60 percent of gun deaths, suicides outnumber homicides, mass shootings, gang violence, and accidents by a long shot.
7. Americans’ primary reason for owning a gun is protection.
48 percent cited protection while just 32 percent cited hunting. In 1999, 49 percent of Americans said hunting was the main reason they owned a gun. Only 26 percent said protection. Violent crime and murder rates are significantly lower today than they were in 1999.
8. The NRA spends more money opposing its opponents than supporting its allies.
This explains why the NRA’s direct political contributions are low relative to the amount of political power the group wields. According to UCLA law professor Adam Winkler, “Politicians don’t listen to the NRA simply because they spend money. They listen to the NRA because the NRA’s money is effectively spent swaying voters.”
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IBM and Acclaim honored with 2017 Learning Impact Award
IMS Global Learning Consortium recognizes joint IBM/Acclaim entry with platinum medal at the 2017 Learning Impact Leadership Institute.
Accepting the award for IBM and Acclaim are (L-R) Pete Janzow (Acclaim), David Leaser (IBM),
Mark Mercury (Acclaim) and Sara Bartlett (Acclaim).
Those smiling faces are members of the Acclaim team and one of our wonderful partners from IBM, moments after being awarded a platinum Learning Impact Award for our work on building and recognizing the next generation workforce through IBM's open badge program.
"This award is a major endorsement that IBM's digital credentials strategy is correct,"said David Leaser, senior program executive, innovation and growth initiatives for IBM. "Together with Acclaim, IBM is transforming the IT credential space and driving real value for our clients and employees. We're developing solutions which have the potential to set new, better standards for the entire IT industry."
"The application process for the Learning Impact Awards is rigorous, and across the various entry requirements IBM very willingly shared its program performance data as a way to highlight best practices that can be utilized across the digital credentialing industry,"said Pete Janzow, senior director, Acclaim. "That willingness to share is a sign of the IBM commitment to leadership in this emerging digital credentials landscape, and Acclaim is pleased to be part of their strategy."
If you're an organization that would like to learn more about IBM's open badge program, get in touch. We'd be happy to share more about IBM's approach to badging and the results they're driving across their company.
Acclaim presenting at 2017 ASU GSV Summit
Several of our team members are headed to beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah, to attend the ASU GSV Summit. This annual summit brings together some of the brightest minds and innovations in education technology, and we're thrilled to be part of the program.
Presenting Companies: May 8th, 10AM
We're one of the Presenting Companies, and our teammate Jarin Schmidt will be on the Venture and Growth stage. He'll have seven minutes to share Acclaim's vision and plan for connecting individuals worldwide with relevant career opportunities and learning pathways through Open Badge technology.
Join us May 8th at 10AM in the Olympus room.
Pearson Emerging Technology Showcase: May 9th, 11AM
Acclaim's Pete Janzow will join Donna Walker, Director of Training and Skills at IBM, at Pearson's Emerging Technology Showcase to talk about how we're working together to prepare the next generation workforce.
Research indicates that four out of five employers believe there is a critical shortage of qualified talent to fill the roles created by rapidly evolving technology such as Cloud and Big Data. In response, IBM is investing in open badge technology through Acclaim as a way to ensure the credentials it confers are relevant, verifiable, portable and discoverable.
In this session, learn how IBM uses information associated with its open badge program through Acclaim to actively progress talent, build effective teams and drive the company's talent management strategy.
Join us May 9th at 11AM in the Sussex room.
Are you part of an organization that will be attending the ASU GSV Education Technology Summit? Let's connect while we're all there.
Acclaim voted best product demonstration at E-ATP 2016
Several Acclaim team members recently attended the Europe-ATP conference in Lisbon, Portugal, and came back to Acclaim HQ full of new ideas. E-ATP is the regional division of the Association of Test Publishers and brought together over 290 professionals and representatives from global organizations that drive innovation in testing, such as content development, security and technology.
Global leaders from Pearson, City & Guilds, Cisco, and Facebook led a workshop to discuss badging best practices. During the workshop Clarke Porter (Acclaim's general manager) and Jarin Schmidt (Acclaim's director of services) led discussions around:
Current trends within credentialing
How badging technology has become increasingly important
Best practices in leveraging badging technology
In addition to these discussions, participants in the workshop went through a series of exercises to better understand how credentials can be mapped into the Open Badges standard.
And finally, Acclaim's participation in the event's Product Demonstrations was well received. By showcasing the connection between credentials and employer demand, Acclaim was selected by attendees as the most innovative product demonstration.
We look forward to heading back to E-ATP in 2017!
Acclaim presents at DevLearn 2015: Solo workers and just-in-time learning
This week, Acclaim team member Peter Janzow will be at DevLearn to share his ideas on the impact of professional learning and development - represented as digital badges - on the emerging solo economy of workers.
What is the solo economy?
53 million people are already working independently as freelancers, indie professionals, creatives, and free agents. That number is expected to grow to more than 50% of America’s workforce in the next decade. For this population, work is no longer a place they go; work is what they do.
To learn more about this rapidly emerging workforce, we talked with Michael Hopkins, founding partner and editorial director of The Solo Project. The Solo Project provides inspiration, ideas, tools and a community for soloists in the United States.
Why are soloists emerging?
“Three primary drivers are behind this shift in the way individuals and corporations approach work,” Hopkins explained.
Technology and tools enable work to be disaggregated and done anywhere, anytime.
Project-based work is growing and provides ample opportunities for specialized talent to jump in and do what they do best
The desire for a new relationship with work - one that is balanced by a sense of fulfillment and time management
He continued,"Increasingly, work both inside and outside corporations is being organized as projects, not jobs. The projects are finite, tackled by teams that form up and later disband. The people who work on those projects come and go, and are often contractors, consultants, and freelancers—soloists, in other words. And corporations will keep gravitating toward the project approach for powerful reasons: it improves their strategic flexibility and speed, it cuts overhead, and it lowers financial risk.”
Digital badges play key role in the freelance workforce
To make this new economy work—for corporations and individuals, alike—it will be critical to
cultivate trust networks around what each worker knows and what he or she can do
make their abilities and achievements visible and accessible in a trustworthy way
Enter: verified digital badges, the emerging standard for recognizing, managing and sharing work experience, learning achievements and professional capabilities. Digital badges that represent these critical skills and experiences can foster trust between solo workers and employers because they convey transparency and seamless verification.
Badges remove uncertainty for employers in building project teams; increase visibility and trust in workers; and strengthen the new working economy, overall.
If you're attending DevLearn 2015, plan to join Pete Janzow for the full session on this topic:
Solo Workers and Just-in-Time Learning, Oct 1, 10:45 AM
Acclaim takes digital badges to E-ATP conference
The 7th annual E-ATP conference occurs this week in Ireland, bringing together European test publishers and related partners to network and share innovative ideas around how leading organizations are gaining advantages from assessments. Clarke Porter, the general manager of Acclaim, and Mark Mercury, Acclaim's product lead, are involved in several presentations across the 3-day event, bringing thought leadership around the place of digital badges in formal assessment.
"The European audience isn't new to alternative credentials," Porter explained. "Digital badges are verifiable which makes the screening process more efficient. Plus, they are a great way for employers to understand what specific skill sets mean in the workplace and how job seekers with these credentials will be able to help an organization."
Mercury will be leading two presentations: Badging the Skills Gap - Unlocking the Emerging Jobs Economy and Articulating the Outcomes of Assessment with Digital Badges. Dr. Robert McHenry, executive chairman at OPP, will join Mercury during Badging the Skills Gap to discuss the drivers behind and opportunities for integrating assessments into an ecosystem built around digital credentials.
The two will share real-life examples of how digital badges can provide EU labor market insights and analytics that will help close the skills gap by increasing transparency and establishing trusted communications between employers, job seekers and education providers.
For Articulating the Outcomes of Assessment with Digital Badges, Mercury will use the Acclaim platform to demonstrate exactly how professional and academic achievements come to life - with context and secure, verifiable data - in the form of digital badges. He will also show attendees the viral effect of badge sharing that can increase program and brand recognition online.
A longtime testing industry influencer and leader, Porter has been to E-ATP numerous times, while this is Mercury's first trip to the event. They're both looking forward to different aspects of the conference. Porteris especially interested in reprising his role as chair of the E-ATP Hackathon. "I'm always impressed with the creativity of the Hackathon participants," he said. "It's a master workshop that has produced some interesting business ideas and gives me the opportunity to meet some of the cream of the crop talent in the assessment industry."
Attending E-ATP 2015? Plan to attend these sessions to learn more about digital badges in the assessment industry:
Badging the Skills Gap - Unlocking the Emerging Jobs Economy, Sept 24 at 8:45 a.m.
Articulating the Outcomes of Assessment with Digital Badges, Sept 24 at 6:00 p.m.
Photo credit: eatpconference.org
Acclaim connects badging + talent mobility at E-ATP
Europe-ATP (E-ATP) kicks off its annual conference this week in Budapest. The conference theme is Employee Mobility in Europe, and the group will spend three days discussing recruitment and skills-gap challenges in Europe that have come about with the global recession.
Although this conference is geared toward professionals within the testing and assessment industry, it's interesting to consider how the work that's being done at conferences like E-ATP could affect the broader workforce.
We here at Acclaim obviously believe that badging is a game-changer when it comes to how individuals will be recognized and validated for their professional skills. For instance, badges can break down barriers that make it difficult for a doctor in Italy to practice medicine in Russia because requirements and capabilities across countries can be unclear or difficult to validate. This is important because we, as a workforce, need to be able to work wherever the work is located.
To that end, two of Acclaim's team members are presenting sessions at E-ATP. Clarke Porter will tackle the very subject outlined about in a presentation titled A Migrating Workforce: How Can We Use Innovative Digital Technology to Help Verify Credentials of Oversees Professionals. Then Peter Pascale will provide an interactive demo of Acclaim during a session called Mobilising Achievements with Open Badges.
To check in on what's happening at E-ATP, follow us on Twitter @YourAcclaim and follow #eatp2014
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Alex Zanardi Is Able to Speak to His Family After Most Recent Surgery: Report
Two-time CART champion, Paralympic gold medalist, and former F1 driver Alex Zanardi has reportedly spoken to his family following a successful, “awake” surgery, reports the Italian news outlet Autosprint.
Zanardi suffered a serious hand-cycling crash during a race in the Italian town of Pienza in Tuscany last summer, which left him in a medically induced coma. Multiple brain surgeries over the course of the latter half of 2020 culminated in Zanardi being able to respond to doctors late in December.
Reportedly, following a further waking surgery during which Zanardi was alert the whole time, he was able to speak with his family. Dr Federica Alemanno, who performed the surgery, told Autosprint: “It was a great emotion when he started talking, no one believed it. He was there! And he communicated with his family.”
Previously, Zanardi had overcome horrific injuries during a 2001 Indycar race at the Eurospeedway Lausitzring. After a pit stop, he span onto the track and was crashed into, resulting in nearly losing his life to loss of blood and having both his legs amputated.
He returned to sport at a high level as a paralympic cyclist, winning two gold medals at the London 2012 Paralympics in hand-cycling and a further gold and silver medal at the Rio 2016 Paralympics.
Prior to his injuries he had competed in Formula One and sports car racing, as well as IndyCar and returned to motorsport in 2019, contesting the 24 Hours of Daytona for BMW.
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Differences in men’s and women’s academic productivity persist and are most pronounced for publications in top journals
Sabrina Mayer & Justus Rathmann present statistical evidence indicating a persistent difference in research productivity between male and female professors in psychology. Examining the publication records of full psychology professors in Germany, they reveal that female professors are less likely to publish in top ranked journals and are more likely to adopt publication strategies that are focused on producing book chapters in edited collections.
As a scientist, one’s work and oneself are constantly evaluated. This personal assessment is usually based on the number and prestige of published scientific articles. These assessments have become more and more important for scientists: Access to career opportunities, third-party funding, and additional university resources, all depend on how much and where one has published. Many previous studies have looked at publication rates. We know that in most cases, men publish on average more articles than women and that there is a gender publication gap. This gap in ‘how much’ one publishes is now well established.
However, previous analyses have not taken into account the prestige of the publication outlet. For instance, one explanation for these previous results could be that women publish less on average, but focus on higher prestige journals. In this respect, not every publication can be counted equally, as there are structural differences between publication types. On the one hand, publications in collections and books can be relatively easy to obtain. Editors are often looking for authors and research that they can include in edited volumes and the demand for chapters is as high as the supply. Peer-review procedures have become more common for book chapters, but in general these are less rigorous compared to journals. On the other hand, it is harder to publish a journal article. Journals are generally more competitive; they have greater rates of submission and rejection, stricter peer-review guidelines, and higher minimum standards. Journal articles usually reach a larger professional audience, are more widely cited, and as a result are well received in evaluations.
To probe deeper into this gender publication gap, we took a sample of full professors of psychology in Germany and analysed their publication records between 2013 and 2014. We distinguished between different publication forms for our analyses of the publication gap between men and women and looked at articles in top-10% journals (1st decile, based on the journal impact factor), ordinary journals (all other journals), and book chapters. For research articles, we relied on information from the Web of Science and book chapters were taken from the database PSYNDEX. This data set was enriched with CV data and structural data for the institute and university. Psychology is particularly suited for a study of this nature, as the disciplinary culture ranges from natural sciences – neuroscience – to social sciences – social psychology – and thus covers a range of publication cultures.
In our sample of psychology full professors, we found that women, over the two-year period, published significantly less ordinary (-1.8) and top (-0.9) journal articles than men, but found no gap for the publication of less prestigious book chapters. The distribution and mean for the three publication types are displayed in Figure 1. More women than men do not have any articles in top journals, whereas men more often than women did not publish book chapters.
denotes the mean
It is often proposed that the gender publication gap is actually caused by other confounding variables. Notably, career age is considered to be positively related to number of publications. If men have on average a higher career age than women, gender differences would then be a result of career age and not gender. However, the gender publication gaps in top and ordinary journal articles persist even after we controlled for confounding individual and organizational factors such as career age, size of chair and department, and amount of collaboration. The results suggest that women do research and write manuscripts, but have different publication patterns: instead of submitting to highly competitive journals, they are satisfied with less-prestigious book chapters. As publications in peer-reviewed (top) journals are especially important for career advancement as well as peer recognition, we argue this publication pattern is most likely disadvantageous for women.
The gender publication gap is therefore statistically significant for publications in ordinary and top journals. This gender gap remains for top journal publications, even after controlling for individual and organizational variables. The gender publication gap in research productivity is thus a challenge that policymakers should consider if they intend to address gender inequality in academia. Even in psychology, a discipline with a large share of women, female professors publish less highly rated journal articles than male professors. As a result, they are less visible to the scientific community and less likely to gain prestige and recognition. Hence, these findings should be taken into account when applying publication-based metrics to evaluate researchers. Finally, additional studies are needed to determine the cause for this gap – why is it that women are less likely to publish in journals, but more likely to publish book chapters? We suppose that women avoid the risk of rejection by this publication strategy, but survey-based data is needed to support this chain of explanation.
This blog post is based on the authors’ co-written article, “How does research productivity relate to gender? Analyzing gender differences for multiple publication dimensions“ published in Scientometrics.
Note: This article gives the views of the authors, and not the position of the LSE Impact Blog, nor of the London School of Economics. Please review our comments policy if you have any concerns on posting a comment below.
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Dr Sabrina J. Mayer works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for Empirical Political Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She studied Political Science and Computer Science at the Universities of Mainz, Freiburg and Glasgow and received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Mainz in 2016. In 2016 and 2017 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the department of bibliometrics at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) in Berlin.
Justus M. K. Rathmann is a research assistant and PhD student at the Chair of Social Theory and Quantitative Methods at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Zurich. He studied Sociology, Economics, Social Research Methods and Statistics at the University of Mannheim and the London School of Economics. He was a researcher at the department of bibliometrics at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) in Berlin.
Posted In: Academic publishing | Gender bias | Higher education | Women in Academia
Hailu says:
It would have been great if the authors took into account a variable called student-professor relationship. Obviously, most professors get articles published through their students. Men professors tend to foster a good student-professor environment, which encourages students for more work. From my own, friends too, personal experiances in the academia, females are terribly poor in supervision, which discourages the student and the output. Thus, your finding might be have been confounded by the varying nature of the working with men and women.
That’s a really interesting claim! Do you know if there are any studies that support the hypothesis that women are worse supervisors than men?
It might also be that male professors more readily take credit for work done by their students whereas female professors are more reluctant to claim co-authorship.. Or that manuscripts by female professors are more often rejected by male dominated reviewer panels or editorial boards, because peer review is rarely completely (gender) blind. Or that women in academia take on more community service roles which leave relatively less time to devote to highly competitive publication outlets, and so on. There are all kinds of possible explanations. What we need is more research, not speculation.
Mohammed Shahateet says:
Excellent research with new conclusions
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Mary Shelley's 'The Last Man': things to think about
Some questions to consider while reading The Last Man:
Why should the theme of 'the last survivor of humankind' be so popular at the beginning of the 19thc?
Why do 19thc readers find such solitary figures (cf. the Wandering Jew and the Ancient Mariner) so fascinating?
How might the prophetic feel of the novel novel encapsulate contemporary anxities?
Do politics and philosophy meet successfully here?
Why would apocalyptic visions such as this be entertaining, then and now?
How far does humanity deserve its fate?
What levels of human agency does Shelley allow?
Contemporary representations:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8LncLHhAFQ&feature=fvwrel
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The Antiquary and the Ancient Scottish Ballad Tradition
Writing about web page http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wH8lAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=ancient+scottish+ballads&hl=en&ei=NilqTYmkJNSJhQeW2NDsDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary is littered with rhymes, tracts, proverbs and ancient English and Scottish ballads-- making up a rich tapestry of intertextuality and oral history. The Scottish ballad tradition was first noted in the early seventeenth century. and by the eighteenth century (as Anglicization took hold), a keen interest in these ballads had developed, leading to the translation and publication of several well-known ballads, such as The Elfin Knight (c.1610):
MY plaid awa, my plaid awa,
And ore the hill and far awa,
And far awa to Norrowa,
My plaid shall not be blown awa.
1 The elphin knight sits on yon hill,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
He blaws his horn both lewd and shril.
The wind hath blown my plaid awa
2 He blowes it east, he blowes it west,
He blowes it where he lyketh best.
3 'I wish that horn were in my kist,
Yea, and the knight in my armes two.'
4 She had no sooner these words said,
When that the knight came to her bed.
5 'Thou art over young a maid,' quoth he,
'Married with me thou il wouldst be.'
6 'I have a sister younger than I,
And she was married yesterday.
7 'Married with me if thou wouldst be,
A courtesie thou must do to me.
8 'For thou must shape a sark to me,
Without any cut or heme,' quoth he.
9 'Thou must shape it knife-and-sheerlesse,
And also sue it needle-threedlesse.'
10 'If that piece of courtesie I do to thee,
Another thou must do to me.
11 'I have an aiker of good ley-land,
Which lyeth low by yon sea-strand.
12 'For thou must eare it with thy horn,
So thou must sow it with thy corn. Visit www.traditionalmusic.co.uk for more songs.
13 'And bigg a cart of stone and lyme,
Robin Redbreast he must trail it hame.
14 'Thou must barn it in a mouse-hell,
And thrash it into thy shoes sell.
15 'And thou must winnow it in thy looff,
And also seek it in thy glove.
16 'For thou must bring it over the sea,
And thou must bring it dry home to me.
17 'When thou hast gotten thy turns well done,
Then come to me and get thy sark then.'
18 'I'l not quite my plaid for my life;
It haps my seven bairns and my wife.'
The wind shall not blow my plaid awa
19 'My maidenhead I'1 then keep still,
Let the elphin knight do what he will.'
The wind's not blown my plaid awa
Sir Walter Scott was himself a keen antiquary, collecting tracts and ballads (as well as books, coins and other artifacts) from early childhood, remarking in 1810 that: 'This little collection of Stall tracts and ballads was formed by me, when a boy, from the baskets of the travelling pedlars. Until put into its present decent binding it had such charms for the servants that it was repeatedly, and with difficulty, recovered from their clutches. It contains most of the pieces that were popular about thirty years since, and, I dare say, many that could not now be procured for any price'. In The Antiquary, these are rewritten, altered, adapted-- spoken and mimicked by many different characters at contrasting moments throughout the text, linking the sequence of events and also defeating class and social boundaries.
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Edmund Burke, 'Reflections on the Revolution in France'
Writing about web page http://www.constitution.org/eb/rev_fran.htm
Charlotte Smith's Desmond is, amongst many things, a response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, written in 1790. In this, he argued for gradual reform, rather than revolution. He believed that the French Revolution would end catastrophically, because it was underpinned by something that was abstract and therefore insecure-- the Enlightenment.
As outlined by Vincent B. Leitch et al., Burke inveighed against unfettered democracy and dangerous appeals to the universal "rights of man" as he defended tradition, monarchy, and a hereditary aristocracy: 'He resisted abstract speculation and (as he defined then) systems and schemes for social and political change that ignored the long history and organic interrelatedness of sociopolitical life, culture and institutions. Society, for Burke, means a "partnership" between "those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born." It is dangerously wrong to interfere with this partnership, however alluring the ideals invoked as justification.'
Against Burke, the French Revolution was defended by several important British radicals, besides Smith. Most notable of these was Thomas Paine, who, in 1791, published The Rights of Man, and also Mary Wollstonecraft, who reacted quickly and aggressively in 1790 with her Vindication of the Rights of Man, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France. Both attacked hereditary privilege and Wollstonecraft went further, attacking the very rhetoric that Burke employed.
Leitch, Vincent B. (gen. ed.), The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (New York; London: W.W Norton Company, 2001), p.537
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Edmund Burke's 'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful'
Writing about web page http://www.bartleby.com/24/2/107.html
Edmund Burke's 'Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful' (1757), suggests that 'terror is in all cases [...] the ruling principle of the sublime', an emotional and violent sensation. 'The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature', he argues, 'is Astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other.' His philosophy developed, but differed, from John Dennis (1657-1734) and Anthony Ashley Cooper (1671-1713), who had employed the sublime to express an appreciation of the awe of nature;a contrast of horror and harmony.
Professor George P. Landlow goes on to explain that: 'In addition to the emphasis which he places on terror, Burke is important because he explained the opposition of beauty and sublimity by a physiological theory. He made the opposition of pleasure and pain the source of the two aesthetic categories, deriving beauty from pleasure and sublimity from pain. According to Burke, the pleasure of beauty has a relaxing effect on the fibers of the body, whereas sublimity, in contrast, tightens these fibers. Thus, by using the authority of his ingenious theory, he could oppose the beautiful and sublime: "The ideas of the sublime and the beautiful stand on foundations so different, that it is hard, I had almost said impossible, to think of reconciling them in the same subject, without considerably lessening the effect of the one or the other upon the passions'' [113-114]. Burke's use of this physiological theory of beauty and sublimity makes him the first English writer to offer a purely aesthetic explanation of these effects; that is, Burke was the first to explain beauty and sublimity purely in terms of the process of perception and its effect upon the perceiver.'
Ann Radcliffe 'On the Supernatural in Poetry'
Writing about web page http://www.litgothic.com/Texts/radcliffe_sup.pdf
Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), one of the pioneers of the Gothic genre, was the first to distinguish between "terror" and "horror", in her essay On the Supernatural in Poetry. In her view "terror and Horror are so far opposite that the first expands the soul, and awakens the faculties to a high degree of life [leading to the sublime]; the other contracts, freezes and nearly annihilates them [...] neither Shakespeare nor Milton by their fictions, nor Mr Burke by his reasoning, anywhere looked to positive horror as a source of the sublime, though they all agree that terror is a very high one; and where lies the great difference between horror and terror, but in uncertainty and obscurity, that accompany the first, respecting the dreader evil".
The full article, which will be of great use this term, can be viewed by clicking on the link above.
Romantic Period Novel— Termly Review
The first term of the RPN module has explored four fascinating texts and a variety of themes and ideas.
In weeks 2 and 3 we read Frances Burney’s Evelina and examined the ways in which Evelina is (or is not) a heroine of sensibility; her unusual relationship with Mr Villars and Mme Duval; the institution of marriage.We asked: What is Lord Orville’s character? Is he Evelina’s saviour? Who preys on Evelina? We further examined the reception of Evelina in the eighteenth century and the conduct literature from which Burney draws or critiques.
In weeks 4 and 5 we discussed the representation of family and sensibility in Charlotte Smith’s Emmeline and the ways in which Smith complicates gender. We questioned whether Emmeline is a heroine (distinguished for her courage) or a protagonist (simply playing the chief part), whether she is perfect or idealised, and if sensibility is a hindrance in Emmeline.
In weeks 6 and 7 we read Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda, beginning with the author’s advertisement, asking why she might want to distance herself from contemporary understandings of the novel. We wondered: what is the moral of the story? Is it easy to discern? We then examined in some detail the character of the narrator, the representation of masculine figures and the theme of race.
Emma concluded the first term. We went back to Scott’s definition of Romance and Novel (marvellous and uncommon vs. ordinary and modern) and explored the ways in which Emma might be seen to turn the narrative into a Romance by fantasizing and misreading. In groups, we analysed the theme of rank, by studying the descriptions of each home (Hartfield, Donwell Abbey, Randall’s, the Bates’ flat, the vicarage) and asking what it might suggest about the character(s) that live in them.
With each new text we have referred to genre, form and reception and the themes of market, nation and sensibility. We have contrasted the Novel with Romance, realism with fantasy, and explored burgeoning notions of modernity alongside extracts from key texts by authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Hester Chapone, Henry MacKenzie, Anna Letitia Barbauld.
Chawton House Library: Biography of Maria Edgeworth
Writing about web page http://www.chawton.org/library/biographies/edgeworth.html
Click on the link above for Susan Manly's brief biography of Maria Edgeworth, in which she discusses the relationship Edgeworth had with her father and the influence he had on her writing, as well as Edgeworth's description of Belinda as a 'Moral Tale'.
Chawton House Library houses a unique collection of books focusing on women's writing in English from 1600 to 1830 and is set in the home and working estate of Jane Austen's brother Edward Austen Knight.
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The truth about women: Maria Edgeworth's 'Helen'
Writing about web page http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/03/maria-edgeworth-helen-john-mullan
John Mullen reads Maria Edgeworth's Helen, and considers eighteenth century society.
Assessment 1 2011–2012
Below you will find a series of questions, from which you should choose one and write a 5000-word essay discussing and analyzing your chosen text(s). For each question you should choose 1-2 novels on which to base your answer. Your answer should eschew plot summary and biography in favour of analysis; the questions below offer you starting points from which you should develop your own particular argument. In other words, do not attempt to cover all possible answers to any of the questions, but rather focus on an aspect of the question that you can persuasively and eloquently investigate in the allotted space. Remember to include an explicit thesis statement and to construct your argument logically. Secondary criticism should always be subordinated to your own interpretations; you do not need to prove anyone wrong but you do need to prove yourself right – or at least persuade your readers that you have made a plausible case.
Your essay should conform to the Departmental standards as laid out in the Undergraduate Student Handbook. Please note that mechanical and structural errors are liable to incur penalties. The essay is due by 12pm on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. Late essays will incur a penalty of 5% per day. All requests for extensions need to be made to the Director for Undergraduate Studies (Dr. Daniel Katz) and not to your tutor. Finally, please note that pressures of work and computer problems are not accepted as reasons for an extension (see the Handbook).
1. ‘I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like’ (Jane Austen/Austen-Leigh, 1870). Consider the representation of male and female characters that might be considered realistic rather than likeable.
2. Discuss the representation of the working class.
3. ‘The hidden passions burn fiercer by being suppressed’ (Thomas Trotter, 1807). Discuss the relationship between desire, repression, and danger.
4. ‘[A] romance is incapable of exemplifying a moral truth’ (S. T. Coleridge, 1797). Discuss the relationship between romance and morality.
5. Discuss the relationship between class and desire in any two novels.
6. Are marriage and independence mutually exclusive? Why or why not?
7. How do the authors use the following—time and place—to structure their narratives?
8. Open topic: you may devise your own topic in consultation with your tutor by no later than Week 10.
Female Passion: Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'
Mary Wollstonecraft’s complicated position on female passion is often also reflected in the novels we have been reading.
She thinks that not only the eye sees her virtuous efforts from whom all her comfort now must flow, and whose approbation is life; but her imagination, a little abstracted and exalted by grief, dwells on the fond hope that the eyes which her trembling hand closed, may still see how she subdues every wayward passion to fulfil the double duty of being the father as well as the mother of her children. Raised to heroism by misfortunes, she represses the first faint dawning of a natural inclination, before it ripens into love, and in the bloom of life forgets her sex – forgets the pleasure of awakening passion, which might again have been inspired and returned. (Rights of Woman, p.164)
In her most famous work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Wollstonecraft imagines an ideal widow, proudly turning her back on marital happiness and sexual pleasure in order to devote herself to her childrens' welfare. It is one of many passages that have troubled feminist scholars. Cora Kaplan, for example, has argued that the Rights of Woman ‘expresses a violent antagonism to the sexual’ and ‘exaggerates the importance of the sensual in the everyday life of women’, betraying ‘the most profound anxiety about the rupturing force of female sexuality'.[1] Scholars like Kaplan are often disappointed in the Rights of Woman, and consider this rejection of female passion to be the greatest failure in Wollstonecraft’s “feminism”.
Mary Poovey, however, understands the Rights of Woman (and the Rights of Man) as ‘the endless referral of sexual gratification […] to escape altogether sexuality’s cruel logic’.[2] She suggests that in discarding female desire, Wollstonecraft rejects the aesthetic paradigm developed by Edmund Burke which ‘takes the female boy as the paragon of beauty and the sexual “fit” between (heterosexual) bodies as the incarnation of providential proportion’.[3] Poovey clearly understands the significance of this paradigm as heterosexual, and ultimately regards the absence of female passion in the Rights of Woman as a rejection of the sexual. In my own research, I have argued that the Rights of Woman rejects the phallus, not female sexuality—leaving room for a third option: the lesbian.
To what extent, if at all, is this evident in the novels we have read thus far?
[1]Cora Kaplan, Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and Feminism (London; Verso, 1986), p. 41
[2] Mary Poovey, ‘Aesthetics and Political Economy in the Eighteenth Century: the Place of Gender in the Social Constitution of Knowledge’, Aesthetics and Ideology, ed. by George Levine (New Brunswick; Rutgers University Press, c.1994), p.97
[3] Poovey, p.97
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VAELL LEASING WINS OUTSTANDING EXECUTIVE CAR LEASING PROVIDER AWARD
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By Samuel Ndisya
The regional leasing firm, Vehicle and Equipment Leasing Limited (VAELL), has been named as the outstanding executive car leasing provider of the year in the Annual National Road Safety Awards 2019 held at the Weston Hotel Nairobi. This brings the awards the company has scooped in half a decade to 18. The winners were competitively chosen through a thorough 5 months survey that started in November 2018 and ended in May this year.
The firm’s Managing Director for Kenya, Bertha Mvati, said that the lessor won the award because of its various innovations to heighten road safety through several motorists training and public awareness.
“We have collaborated with several stakeholders to ensure that our roads are safe all the time. It is our priority that everyone arrives safe and alive. We encourage our drivers to be always sober while on the road.” said Bertha Mvati.
“We were recognized as the outstanding executive lessors owing to our diligence in road safety. Our efficient services that promote road safety together with compliance to set safety standards are other supplementary contributors such as comprehensive insurance and replacement policy. As far as safety is concerned we don’t compromise. We follow the laid down procedures to the letter respective of the cost,” she added.
“Most vehicles on our roads are road-unworthy. That is another major cause of accidents that we can avoid if every road user will take care of their car as recommended. We always ensure that our fleet is maintained by respective dealers and we also have our own competent clutch of mechanics that carries inspections and does the necessary maintenances and repairs to avoid casualties,” said Ms. Mvati.
Speaking during the event, the guest of honour the deputy President of Kenya, H.E. Dr William Ruto applauded the stakeholders who are playing a role in enhancing road safety.
“Everyone is bound to ensure safety on our roads. Awareness education and information, including driving standards, licencing and vehicle inspection are crucial for road users’ safety. When our roads used to have potholes people used to say that there we road accidents were there because the roads were too bad and now that the roads are too good without potholes the road accidents have increased. We urge to exercise caution while on the roads,” said Dr Ruto.
According to recent reports, road safety in Kenya is a major concern and many lives have been lost on the roads. In this regard, the annual safety Awards are meant to recognize and celebrate the inspirational and innovative initiatives in Kenya and the region which contribute to improving road safety and saving lives on our roads. This is the first time VAELL rose to the top leading other players in the sector and emerging the winner with outstanding credentials.
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In 2014 VAELL won the award for the Best in Transport, in the Top 100 KPMG/Business Daily survey, and 2015 shot into Club 101 in the same survey. It has scooped 18 awards in the last 5 years. The leasing market leader was named in 2018 by East African Business Council Tanzania as the best East African Company in The Service Sector. The lessor has also been named in the South Africa’s Titan Building Nation awards in the outstanding achievement category.
VAELL was recently hosted by Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) onto its premium incubation and acceleration programme, Ibuka. VAELL also owns Quipbank Trust Limited, equipment sharing platform and TingA, East Africa’s largest tractor share platform.
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Fistful of Metal
Anthrax Homepage
Category: Classic '80s Heavy Metal
Label: Caroline/Megaforce Records
Catalog Number: CAROL CD 1383
Average Rating: 83 / 100 (5 ratings)
Neil Turbin vocals
Scott Ian rhythm guitar
Dan Spitz lead guitar
Danny Lilker bass
Charlie Benante drums
1. Deathrider 3:30
2. Metal Thrashing Mad 2:39
3. I'm Eighteen 4:02
4. Panic 3:58
5. Subjugator 4:38
6. Soldiers of Metal 2:55
7. Death From Above 5:06
8. Anthrax 3:24
9. Across the River 1:26
10. Howling Furies 3:55
The music discographies on this site are works in progress. If you notice that a particular Anthrax CD release or compilation is missing from the list above, please submit that CD using the CD submission page. The ultimate goal is to make the discographies here at Brutal Metal as complete as possible. Even if it is an obscure greatest-hits or live compilation CD, we want to add it to the site. Please only submit official CD releases; no bootlegs or cassette-only or LP-only releases.
EPs and CD-singles from Anthrax are also welcome to be added, as long as they are at least 4 songs in length.
From: Rikker Mortis Date: April 28, 2001 at 18:28
this sounds nothing like current Anthrax so dont buy unless you know what youre getting.
From: Metal Maniac Date: January 3, 2002 at 16:56
This album rocks!! Great vocals, best guitar solos of Anthrax's albums, great to headbang! Highly recommend for the headbanger at heart!!
From: motley Date: May 2, 2002 at 8:47
great debut from these new york moshers.
From: richierocker Date: May 25, 2002 at 15:53
This is a thrash classic. Awesome guitars and Danny Spitz serves up some tasty fret work. Neil Tubins voice is pretty good too, but like I said before, get this album its a classic
From: Motley Date: October 30, 2003 at 21:44
A classic collectors item!!!!!!!! The beginning of T H R A S H!!!!!!
From: Flamingshadows Date: May 27, 2004 at 18:24
hey this Anthrax cd fuckin rox!
From: ED Date: June 13, 2004 at 18:19
Kick ass debut from one of the best metal bands ever! I love it!!
From: Scott Date: November 3, 2004 at 13:55
I was anxious for this album to come out after purchasing the "Soldiers of Metal" 45 RPM single in '83. Anthrax along with Raven and Metallica were my favorite bands at the time. They took the speed of punk and mixed it with the songwriting & image of NWOBHM. Of course this was when these bands were still "underground" and speed metal & thrash metal were new genres. I still love this CD today! Metal Thrashing Mad, Panic, Soldiers of Metal and Across the River/Howling Furies are all classics.
From: Richierocker Date: December 17, 2004 at 22:54
My favorite album from Anthrax. Danny Spitz shines tremendously on this album some of his best work ever in my opinion. No filler on this album all trash in your face killer kick ass vibe soundijng shit. A must for any fan of the genre. The sound and the speed and the melodies and beats are fabulous.
From: Metalguy0616 Date: March 23, 2005 at 23:50
I remember back in 1988 jamming this cassette, on x-mas eve. Man were these guys killer back in the day or what? I mean you cant go wrong with any of the 10 tracks on here. KILLER MATERIAL!!!!
From: eddie Date: April 4, 2005 at 14:38
This album rocks! Does anyone know that the classic line-up (Joey Belladonna, Scott Ian, Charlie Benante, Dan Spitz, and Frank Bello) are back together this year? Check www.anthraxtheband.com for details!
From: jimbob Date: April 19, 2005 at 10:02
Neil Turbin was the BEST vocalist Anthrax ever had. Get that clown Primadonna out of there. What a whiner ! Sheesh
From: Andrew Date: August 30, 2005 at 16:11
Turbin's madman howl was the best thing ever to happen to this group. This is Anthrax at its raw and powerful best, without the comedy songs, lame rap crossovers or wussy liberal political messages of later releases. Instead of crying for the Indians, Anthrax ought to cry about Neil Turbin not sticking around.
From: metalalways Date: August 10, 2006 at 11:54
this is anthrax's best soldiers of metal, metal thrashing mad, they did a good job on i'm eighteen the song anthrax is instrumental whatever happened to neil turbin why did he get out of it after the first album?
From: ronaldsinaga Date: March 20, 2011 at 9:05
There's only 2 songs i loved in this album : Metal Trashing mad and cover of Alice Cooper tune : I'm eighteen...
From: rick kerch vzla Date: January 4, 2014 at 18:42
Not a bad album even though we all know that Anthrax got recognition after the incorporation of Joey Belladonna...Neil wasn't as skilled as Joey but somehow did a decent job in here..."Deathrider" & "Metal Thrashing Mad" are 2 killer songs(especially the second one that the band has played throughout its career)...tracks 4 & 7 are also good ones...80/100
From: CC Date: May 1, 2019 at 19:29
Anthrax are more famous for their albums with Joey on vocals and then with John replacing him, but Neil kinda gets forgotten due to it being a one and done as far as albums go. Musically this is a vastly different album to the Joey albums, and is actually kinda more of a NWOBHM sounding album than a thrash album. In many ways the change from this to the likes of Spreading the disease reminds me of the change of style from the Dianno era Maiden to Dickinson. There are some good songs on this one though, but anyone buying it that has never heard it before should at least be aware that this is not the Anthrax they are used to.
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Cindy E Hiday
Destination Stardust
"You’ll be taken on the trip of a lifetime, with unexpected, often hilarious results." 5 Star Readers' Favorite
Eleven-year-old Benny relies on his love of action movies to navigate life. After his mama dies, he talks his dad into taking him to the Grand Canyon, convinced the trip will make his dad happy again, like in the movie. Benny's dad, Ray, just hopes to put distance on the memories haunting him and his son in their empty house.
Three states away, seventy-one-year-old Grace is having a full-tilt panic attack during her husband's church service. A split-second decision to see the Stardust Casino one last time – and a broken fan belt – lands her square in the path of father and son, who offer to get her to Las Vegas before the casino's demolition.
Then somewhere in the middle of Oklahoma, Benny finds a bag of money...
A fun, heartwarming story of friendship, self-discovery, and forgiveness.
Published author, part-time writing workshop instructor for Mt. Hood Community College in Oregon, professional proofreader, deep into working on the next novel. I enjoy coffee, chocolate & books.
Shakespeare.
I went to a progressive high school that did not require studying the classics. So it came as quite a surprise to discover Grace's papa enjoyed reading Shakespeare's work to her when she was a child. Which meant I had some catching up to do. Wow, the Bard could really string words together with elegance, couldn't he? As a lover of words, I have a greater appreciation of Shakespeare now than I ever would have had as a teenager. I put my newfound appreciation to the test in this scene between Grace and Mr. Tony, a.k.a. the Roman.
Mr. Tony sat alone at the back table. He might have been in his late thirties, early forties, his thick shock of dark brown hair spiked on top but trimmed neat around the sides. A day's growth gave his sharp-edged face a wan look against the red and black pinstripe shirt he wore. An audacious diamond ring flashed on one slender hand. He stood at their approach, as tall as Ray, and watched them from behind transparent amber glasses. Grace saw his eyes move from her to Ray, then back to her.
"Why are you interrupting my evening?"
"I'm here for a game," Grace said.
Mr. Tony regarded her. "Why should I take your money?"
"It's not my money. It's yours." Grace decided at a glance the dumb tourist ploy wouldn't work on this man. "I've got fifty grand that Johnny says belongs to you."
"His debt is twice that."
Grace sucked her teeth. "Indeed it is. I intend to double the fifty and pay back his debt, plus interest."
"Why does Johnny's debt matter to you?"
"This isn't about Johnny." It's about me and my papa. It's about two boys from Ohio and all they done for me. It's about I don't approve of the way you like scarin' people. "I'm just looking for a game," she told him.
"And if you lose?"
"I won't."
Mr. Tony sighed. "They all say that. Unfortunately, it's often untrue. You lose and I'm still out a hundred grand. I need more or there's no game."
Ray stepped forward. "I've got a Harley Softail with sidecar – "
"I dislike motorcycles."
"That's right, Johnny said you're into classic muscle cars."
Grace didn't remember Johnny saying anything of the sort. Had that been part of their conversation in the desert? Or was Ray doing a little gambling of his own? Either way, she could tell where he was headed and tried to stop him. "Ray, don't."
"I've got a '69 Olds 442," he said, ignoring her. "Burgundy mist, white accents, W-30 package, one owner...worth more than what that Harley'd go for."
"Where is it?"
"Albuquerque."
Mr. Tony waved a dismissive hand. "You're wasting my time, both of you."
Ray tensed and made as though to move closer. Grace cut him off, pressing in to rest her purse on the table. "Sugar, what have you got to lose? You don't play me, you're still out the money. You and I both know Johnny can't come up with another fifty grand by midnight. He's not that good."
"But you think you are." The man broke eye contact to glance at her purse.
Grace resisted a smile. "'Put money in thy purse,'" she challenged, quoting the villainous Iago from Shakespeare's Othello.
Mr. Tony's eyes lifted. "You've studied the Bard?"
"Enough to know poor Othello didn't have a chance. 'I am not what I am.'"
"'What conjuration...'"
"'And what mighty magic.'"
He stared at her for long seconds, then without turning to look at Moon said, "Bring the lady her chips."
Ray leaned close and whispered, "What the hell was that all about?"
Grace patted his arm. "Don't you never mind. I got chips to purchase." She opened her purse and withdrew several bundles of bills, made sure her fingers brushed Moon's as she handed each one over to him, and said, "Thank you, dear."
The big man blushed.
Mr. Tony cleared his throat. "'Trust no agent, for beauty is a witch.'"
Much Ado About Nothing this time. "'Against whose charms faith melteth..."
"'In blood.'"
She pasted a brazen smile on her face. "Let's hope it don't come to that."
Mr. Tony's tight laugh sent a chill across the table. Much as she enjoyed the Shakespeare banter, and was pleased with her recall, that tight laugh cautioned her to remember Johnny's fear of the man.
He motioned her to sit. "What's your name and what's your game?"
"My name is Grace." She sat and tucked her purse – now fifty grand lighter – in her lap. "I hear Texas Hold'em is popular."
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Joseph Anton
„Joseph Anton” în librăriile Cărturești
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Dimensiuni: H: 20cm | l: 13cm | 4.2cm | 464g
Luka si Focul Vietii
Quichotte
Orient, Occident
Furie
From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down.
On Valentine’s Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever: Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading Muslim scholar, had issued him with a death sentence. This is his own account of how he was forced to live in hiding for over a decade; at once intimate and explosive, this is the personal tale behind the international story.
How does a man live with the constant threat of murder? How does he continue to work when deprived of his freedom? How does he sustain friendships, or fall in and out of love? How does he fight back? For over a decade, Salman Rushdie dwelt in a world of secrecy and disguise, a world of security guards and armoured cars, of aliases and code names.
In Joseph Anton, Rushdie tells the remarkable story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech.
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize
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London, Jack, 1876-1916, Bransom, Paul, 1885-1979,
2017 edition.
"Kidnapped from his California home and sold to prospectors embarked for the Yukon Gold Rush, Buck, a pampered house dog who has known comfort all of his life, finds himself thrust into a brutal world of cruel human masters, savage fellow sled-dogs, and an unforgiving wilderness full of hardship and misery. In the wilds, Buck earns the love of a man as rugged as he is, and he reacquaints himself with his true animal nature, a noble heritage passed down through tens of thousands of years of his kind's survival. First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is Jack London's masterpiece of adventure. This edition features the classic illustrations of Paul Bransom. The Call of the Wild is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics for children. It features classic illustrations, an elegant bonded-leather binding, distinctive gilt edging, and a ribbon bookmark"--Amazon.
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Making the Invisible Visible: Bringing Intimate Partner Violence into Focus
This year’s BRIght Futures Prize finalists are pursuing forward-thinking and inventive research to improve patient care. Each of the three finalists hopes to receive the $100,000 BRIght Futures Prize, which will be awarded at Discover Brigham on Wednesday, Nov. 7. Read about their work below, and vote for your choice.
Bharti Khurana, MD
Director, Emergency Radiology Fellowship, Department of Radiology
Intimate partner violence (IPV), defined as physical, sexual or emotional violence between partners or former partners, is a critical public health issue and widely prevalent. One in four women and one in seven men have reported experiencing severe physical violence from an intimate partner in their lifetime in the U.S. IPV has both short- and long-term negative health consequences, and even childhood exposure to IPV has been linked to adverse mental and physical health effects in adults. Half of female homicides between 2003 and 2014 have been linked to IPV. Despite how often IPV occurs, many victims think they are alone, and cases can go unreported for decades.
The medical community could play a vital role in detecting IPV early and preventing its perpetuation. But IPV can be a very difficult subject to raise with a patient. Also, IPV happens mostly within the confines of the home and evidence is mostly elusive. Although questionnaires about safety have helped, the proportion of identifiable IPV cases to date only represents the tip of the iceberg. There is more that we as radiologists can do by looking specifically for early signs of IPV and providing opportunity to offer preventive services.
We are creating new tools to empower clinicians to identify patients who are experiencing IPV. Our goal is to develop an integrated system that uses patterns derived from expert analysis of historical imaging and clinical data, detects and classifies injuries for their likelihood of being as a result of IPV, and automatically alerts clinicians if a patient’s injuries have low or high-risk probability for IPV.
To do so, we plan to use machine learning – that is, teach a computer program to recognize signs of IPV based on radiological and clinical findings from known IPV cases. This will give us a comprehensive picture and help generate a checklist to identify those most at risk. In addition, our multidisciplinary team will design conversational guides and training for social workers and clinicians to approach the patients who are identified as being at high risk for IPV but are not forthcoming.
How will your research project benefit people?
Intervening early means preventing adverse physical and mental consequences that result from IPV. With funding from the BRIght Futures Prize, we will be able to take the next step toward identifying radiological findings and clinical risk factors in patients with documented IPV.
Our goal is to give clinicians the tools, classification models, statistical evidence and alert systems for greater confidence and robustness in findings, empowering them to open a dialogue with their patients about IPV. We hope that this will have a ripple effect, changing the lives of patients and their families; strengthening the role of the medical community in identifying IPV; and breaking the silence around IPV in our society.
Collaborators and Affiliations:
George Dyer, MD, program director, Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Annie Lewis-O’Connor, NP, PhD, founder and director of the Coordinated Approach to Recovery and Empowerment (C.A.R.E.) Clinic
Kathryn Rexrode, MD, MPH, chief, Division of Women’s Health
Steven Seltzer, MD, FACR, chair emeritus, Radiology
Giles Boland, MD, FACR, chair, Radiology
Marta Chadwick Balcom, JD, director, Violence Intervention and Prevention Programs, Center for Community Health and Health Equity
Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH, Department of Emergency Medicine
Mark Michalski, MD, executive director, MGH & BWH Center for Clinical Data Sciences (CCDS)
Katherine Andriole, PhD, director, Research and Operations, CCDS
William Berry, MD, associate director, Ariadne Labs
Mitchel Harris, MD, chief, Department of Orthopedics, Massachusetts General Hospital
Paul Tornetta, MD, chief, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Boston Medical Center
or read more about the other BRIght Futures finalists:
The Open Anatomy Project
Time to Heal Chronic Wounds
13 Responses to “Making the Invisible Visible: Bringing Intimate Partner Violence into Focus”
Renu Joshi October 10, 2018
This is a very important topic and statistics are alarming so far. Needs more research.
Sheela Moorthy October 10, 2018
A topic that warrants more research and intervention.
Rajeshwari Rawat October 10, 2018
Muska ullah October 10, 2018
Good luck 👍
Renu Gupta October 11, 2018
Very relevant topic. All the best
You’ll do this
Tracey October 12, 2018
This is wonderful and meaningful work. I wholeheartedly support this initiative! I believe this research will ultimately support and provide a voice to women who may otherwise be afraid to speak up — Women from all walks of life that live in silence. You have my vote, Dr. Khurana. To me you have already won! Good luck.
Alexandra Spalding October 14, 2018
Yes, yes, yes! The issue is hard for many women to talk about, so bedside manner is key. Also need to get around the issue of Scope of Practice. As a bodyworker in the US I am constrained to handle only physical pain, and to listen but not advise about emotional and mental pain.Unfortunately they are intertwined.
Vijay selhi October 15, 2018
Very good course Good luck
Andrew Dienstfrey October 17, 2018
Congratulations to all finalists for their commitment to working on our most challenging problems. Dr. Khurana and collaborators, good luck in your work! We need your solutions!
Fainess Lipenga October 21, 2018
This is very important issue, I am glad professionals are taking first step from the bottom of this. It’s true it’s hard to talk about it it’s unfortable topics yet there is no education or awareness for this , this will be a good move.
Virginia Williams October 26, 2018
This is a great project and would be a valuable resource!
Kumaraswamy November 12, 2018
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Sorel-Tracy, April 5th, 2017
The unveiling of the preliminary concept, the brand image and the media tools for the project Statera - The 104th Island was held today, in the experiential pavilion of the pier of the Sorel-Tracy ferry, in the presence of Mrs. Nathalie LeMay of RIRÉRST, Promoter of the Statera experience and of Mr. Jacques Larue of cadabra.
Carried out by the firm cadabra, the fantastic experience will be featured in June 2018 on the Ferry Wharf of Sorel-Tracy overlooking the St. Lawrence River. This environment is at the heart of an archipelago of 103 islands in the Lac Saint-Pierre designated UNESCO biosphere reserve.
Statera - The 104th Island, will unfold in two parts :
A. An immersive and interactive indoor journey (day and evening) where the visitor dives into the universe of the Sorel Islands at night, a world set between reality and fiction;
B. An indoor multimedia projection in a dome at 360 ˚(evening), where the show relates the 375 years of history of Sorel-Tracy. By nightfall, this illuminated dome will create a distinctive luminous signature on the St. Lawrence River.
With this new major project, we want to create an innovative tourist attraction in the heart of the city of Sorel-Tracy and boost our economic activity.
Nathalie LeMay, spokesperson for the RIRÉRST
At the moment we are working relentlessly to establish the basis for a global and concerted tourist destination.
Benoît Théroux, president of RIRÉRST
At the event, cadabra, the company of artistic and technological creation, presented an overview of this concept never seen before:
We have completely immersed ourselves in the rich history of the region to propose an experience in which the people of Sorel will recognize each other but whose themes are universal, such as the fragile equilibrium between the natural and industrial worlds. With Statera, tourists and locals will have a colorful, international experience.
M. Jacques Larue, designer
About RIRÉRST
The Regroupement indépendant pour la relance économique de la région de Sorel-Tracy (RIRÉRST) is an NPO founded in 1999. It is the promoter for Statera. Its mission is to develop, implement and promote an avant-garde destination concept that serves as a catalyst for a comprehensive tourism strategy, a key economic stimulus and a source of pride for the entire community. RIRÉRST has received funding from the Maritime strategy – tourism component, to the tune of 2.9 million. Eventually, 10 million will be invested in collaboration with the city of Sorel-Tracy to revitalize and reconvert the former industrial pier into a public square where the experience will be installed.
About cadabra
cadabra is a multidisciplinary creative studio whose mission is to turn knowledge into a show. Its team imagine, develop and produce captivating collective experiences that excite the senses and capture the imagination.
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New Construction Retail Spaces Now Available at The Shoppes at Sterling Parc in Middletown, N.Y.
MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. – The Shoppes at Sterling Parc, a prime 18,000 square-foot retail center located in the heart of nearly 500 high-end residential units in the Orange County, N.Y. town of Middletown, has less than ten street-front retail spaces remaining available.
Situated within the 192-home Sterling Parc apartment community and adjacent to the brand new 306-unit Southgate Middletown rental neighborhood, the suites range from 1,000 square-feet to 2,400 square feet and can be built-to-suit to fill the specific needs of nationally recognized brands, independent boutiques, restaurants or local service providers. Retail spaces can also be combined for larger uses.
New retail operations will join an established tenant base that includes Envy Nails, State Farm Insurance and Natura Smoothies & Café.
“We’ve received a tremendous response from the retail community which has recognized the unlimited potential this unique new development has to offer,” notes Nick Hollenbeck, Director of Sales and Marketing for Sterling Properties, which developed The Shoppes at Sterling Parc as part of the initial phase of the overall community.
“In addition to a built-in customer base of 500 families, The Shoppes at Sterling Parc has great drive-by traffic giving our retail tenants a build in customer base and wonderful street presence. The property is also convenient to the major roadways, making it extremely accessible from throughout Middletown and nearby municipalities. We’ve created a vibrant, sophisticated atmosphere at this neighborhood which doesn’t currently exist in Orange County and provides a special retail opportunity.”
For additional information on retail opportunities at The Shoppes at Sterling Parc, please call Nick Hollenbeck at (973) 535-1888.
The Shoppes at Sterling Park is situated at the entrance of the Sterling Parc community which opened in 2012 and is 100% leased and occupied. Across from the retail center are the rental homes at Southgate Middletown which has recently released its first phase of 306 total residences for leasing with initial occupancy expected in late spring/early summer.
Located near Interstate 84 and minutes from Route 17 and US 6, The Shoppes at Sterling Parc are easily accessible from many of the area’s major business and residential centers, including the nearby Orange Regional Medical Center.
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Sterling Properties is widely recognized as a multi-faceted development organization with a wide range of upscale real estate including residential, office and commercial communities throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut. For additional information on the company, please visit www.sterlingpropertiesnj.com or call (973) 535-1888.
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Saturday 19 December
Screening 1 : Open from 3.45 pm starts at 4.30pm
Screening 2: Open from 6.45 pm starts at 7.30pm
Home Alone is a 1990 American Christmas family comedy film written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. It stars Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, and Catherine O'Hara. The film follows Kevin (Culkin), an eight-year-old boy, who must defend his home from two burglars, Harry and Marv (Pesci and Stern), after his family accidentally leaves him behind on their vacation. It was filmed between February and May 1990 in a variety of locations throughout Illinois. The film was originally meant to be distributed by Warner Bros., but was transferred to 20th Century Fox when Hughes exceeded the $10 million limit that had been imposed on the film's budget by Warner. Rated PG
A Drive-In screening at Low Farm, Fonaby, Brigg Road , Caistor
Tickets £10.00 per car
Limited to 30 cars per screening - all parking spots guaranteed a good view of the screen.
Please follow stewards instructions at all times when moving your vehicle.
Please observe social distancing and other Covid -19 regulations in force at the time when you need to leave your vehicle.
Please keep to 5 MPH when moving your vehicle on the drive-in cinema site.
The cinema sound will be over the normal outdoor cinema loudspeakers
Once parked up, please leave your engine switched off. This is is to minimise the noise of idling engines disturbing other cinema goers and avoid unnecessary environmental impact.
Toilets are available on site
Please take all your rubbish away with you and do not throw it out of your car
Sorry , no dogs - except service dogs
As part of the licencing conditions we have to strictly control the number of attendees and keep contact details for Covid-19 precautions.
Places for 30 cars tickets at £10.00 per car are available online or from Caistor Post Office.
For online bookings, your contact details will be saved automatically until after the event. If you buy in person at Caistor Post Office, you will be given a ticket with a space to enter your name, address and other contact details. Please complete this before arriving at the venue.
We will keep data until 21 days after the screening, at which time all tickets and data collected will be destroyed/deleted.
If the screening has to be cancelled for any reason - including poor weather conditions or government changes to event regulations, full refunds will be give.
Online Tickets Here
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We would love for you to join us in preserving and sharing the history of the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse. There are many ways to get involved.
Join us through our annual or lifetime membership program and gain access to special activities and members-only events, including a quarterly trip to the lighthouse for non-badged members, at no cost. You will also receive a discount at the online and onsite Keeper’s Closet Gift Shop.
We have Membership Levels to Fit your Budget
Our normal membership rate:
Head Lighthouse Keeper …………… $100
Lighthouse Keeper (family) …………. $50
Lighthouse Keeper (individual) ……. $35
Student Membership ………………….. $15
You can also set your membership to automatically renew, but only through PayPal. The sustaining membership levels offer a discount from the annual membership levels.
Head Lighthouse Keeper ………………. $90
Lighthouse Keeper (family) …………… $40
Lighthouse Keeper (individual) ……… $30
We also have lifetime membership levels:
Life Membership (2 family member) – $1,500
Life Membership (single) – $1,000
You can send in our membership form or fill in the form here. If you have any questions, please contact us at info@canaverallight.org.
Thank you for your interest in the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Foundation.
There are many opportunities to become an active part of the lighthouse team. You can provide tours at the lighthouse and museum, sell souvenirs and gifts in our Keeper’s Closet Gift Shop, teach school children about the lighthouse during educational tours, support special fundraising and other special events, or reach out to the community to spread the word about the lighthouse. All training will be provided, as well as mentoring until you are comfortable in your role.
You must be a U.S. Citizen and will be required to undergo a background check in order to be able to get to the lighthouse, which is on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
If you’re interested in finding out more, you can contact us at info@canaverallight.org or complete the volunteer form below and someone will contact you.
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We would be happy to present information about lighthouse activities and future plans for your group. If you’d like to learn more about the history of the lighthouse, its unique relationship with the nation’s space program, and what you’ll see when you come to visit, please contact us at info@canaverallight.org.
Lighthouse ownership was transferred from the United States Coast Guard to the United States Air Force on December 14, 2000. The Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Foundation Inc. was established on May 20, 2002.
The purpose of the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Foundation is to assist the 45th Space Wing in preserving, protecting, and interpreting the lighthouse and its historical significance to the Florida Space Coast, State of Florida, and our Nation. The Foundation supports the Air Force in the development and operation of a lighthouse program that informs the public and commemorates the historical activities of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The Foundation is charged with promoting the lighthouse through education initiatives, advertisements, brochures, publicity, community events and tours.
The Foundation is managed by a Board of Directors, a group of ten to eighteen members who meet monthly. The goal of the Foundation is to recreate the lighthouse community as it was when lighthouse keepers and their families lived and worked there and to share the history of the lighthouse with the public.
The Foundation is currently raising funds to rebuild the three Keepers’ Cottages to complete the historical integrity of the original configuration of buildings which surrounded the lighthouse. The lighthouse keepers’ homes were destroyed after 76 years of existence. The first cottage has been rebuilt and houses a museum and gift shop. The next cottage to be built will be an education and activity center. The final building will be a replica cottage depicting the lives of the Keepers and their families over the years.
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If your tour can be on site for 2-3 hours, you could also visit either the Air Force Space and Missile Museum or the Sands Space History Center. Would you like to visit another museum?
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Three-month data for Watchman show high success rate
New data from the EWOLUTION registry, presented at EuroPCR 2016, confirms safety of the Boston Scientific left atrial appendage closure system (Watchman). The data are for more than 1,000 patients, from across Europe, who received the device and focus on post-procedural drug regimen, impact of centre experience and peri-device leakage. Dual antiplatelet therapy following the implantation also appears to be safe.
A press release reports that the three-month results from the EWOLUTION registry indicate that the Watchman device is associated with a high success rate in complete left atrial appendage closure with a low periprocedural risk. These findings were independent of implanting physicians’ experience, thus confirming the safety of the device. Highlights of the data, which were presented at EuroPCR 2016 by Martin W Bergmann (Cardiologicum Hamburg, Germany), include:
The implant procedure was successful in 98.5% of cases
Independent of centre experience, 99% of implanted devices presented no or minimal (≤5mm) peri-device leakage at the first follow-up, assessed by periprocedural transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE)
Device or procedure related serious adverse events (SAE) rates at 92 days were similar if patients were treated with warfarin or DAPT (2.6% vs. 4.8%, respectively).
Rates for bleeding SAE were also similar if warfarin or DAPT was used post-implantation (4.8% vs. 3.6%, respectively)
Following WATCHMAN implantation, 6% of patients received no anticoagulation, 27% received oral anticoagulation (16% warfarin and 11% novel oral anticoagulants, NOACs), 60% received dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) and 7%of patients were on single antiplatelet therapy.
Stroke (0.4%) and bleeding (4.1%) rates were low overall and did not vary by post-implantation medications.
Wearables offer “great potential” in AF screening but physicians cautious over mass use
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Best post-election move so far:
While many in the news media are mea culpa-ing all over the place at how they badly blew the Trump story, kudos to the executive at CNN who did something to make things better.
The smartest news media move to come out of the election so far is CNN hiring Salena Zito.
Salena got the Trump phenomenon before many other journalists. She reported on the people who support Donald Trump with respect, with accuracy, and with humanity.
Not only is this is a great journalism move, it’s a potential audience builder considering the number of people who voted for the president elect. With FOX News in the middle of trying to find a way forward without Roger Ailes, CNN has a chance to take a piece of the FOX audience.
CNN is riding an election high, while FOX has shown some weakness in the key demographics.
When FOX News began, CNN’s biggest mistake was not taking the upstart network seriously. Let’s see how FOX responds.
One cautionary note to CNN: Let Salena be Salena.
One cautionary note for Ms. Zito: News is for people at home, not for the people in newsrooms. Don’t be co-opted into the groupthink of a large news operation.
Bad media move of the day:
The Trump team should allow a press pool to accompany him as soon as possible. The candidate who ran on the idea that government was not transparent and inaccessible to the people needs to put his money where his mouth is.
Mistrust of the news media by the Trump team is understandable, but things are different now that he’s going to be the leader of the free world.
Both sides must build trust. At least talks have begun.
The Riots
It feels like third world politics:
Not so long ago Hillary Clinton supporters were telling Donald Trump supporters that they must accept the results of the election.
Now that the Hillary has lost the election we’ve seen rioting in some of our major cities.
Instead of pointing out the hypocrisy of rioters, news media is playing to, and fueling their grievances.
Many in media are still litigating the election, causing more anxiety on the losing side. Others in the media are already fighting Trump in 2020.
I’m a big believer in the right to protest. I’m not a believer in destruction and violence.
The news media have an obligation to tell us who is organizing political violence.
So far, neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton have asked these rioters to cool it.
In Chicago, an argument over a fender bender went viral and political when bystanders starting shouting at the white man about “voting for Trump.”
This is the kind of political violence people who immigrate to the United States try to escape. It seems odd that those in favor of open borders would emulate the behavior they couldn’t wait to get away from.
The other bit of hypocrisy from the rioters.
Targeting white children as the villains. Video like this should make you angry.
Isn’t alleged racism what they’re upset about in the first place?
The effect of the violence will be to create more Republican voters from independents, and to unify the GOP for the first time in a long time.
While it may be difficult to explain the warts that come with Donald Trump to your kids, try explaining to them why a little girl was beaten for expressing her views.
Worst Business move of the day.
GrubHub:
Keep your politics to yourself.
In an e mail, GrubHub CEO Matt Maloney basically told employees that if they didn’t agree with his world view they should resign.
The backlash on social media was predictably insane. The calls for a boycott were immediate.
While Maloney has every right to express his political beliefs, he has no right to ask employees about theirs, or judge them.
As someone who’s hired many people, I know you’re not allowed to ask about a person’s political beliefs or affiliations.
Maloney later “explained” his comments.
GrubHub stock was of nearly five percent on the trading day, and continued to lose ground in after hours trading. Here’s a live stock market ticker.
Sorry Matt. Political loyalty tests are so Joseph McCarthy, and even more Third Reich.
Author Carl GottliebPosted on November 12, 2016 Categories News CommentaryTags Anti Trump Riots, Barack Obama, CNN, Democrats, Donald Trump, FOX News, GrubHub, Hillary Clinton, Independents, Joseph McCarthy, media criticism, Racism, Republicans, Selena Zito, Third ReichLeave a comment on Quick Hits
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Best Ceiling Fan under 500 Dollars
You don’t have to spend a fortune to improve the comfort in a room by investing in a ceiling fan. There are many different designs and shapes to choose from to compliment any room’s decoration. Additionally, you can purchase a quality and well-built unit at an affordable price. If you are not willing to spend much on a ceiling fan, then have a look at our “Ceiling Fans Under $100 Guide“. However, if you can spend a little bit extra, keep on reading and see if you can find a quality ceiling fan under $500. This is the perfect prize level if you are willing to spend anything from $100 to $500 in a ceiling fan. This way, you can raise your demands without having to pay for a high-priced unit. Ceiling fans are getting more and more popular, and the demand for more energy efficient ceiling fan is increasing significantly every year.
Although the engineering technology has dramatically improved in ceiling fans since the first unit was introduced to the market, the main concept, to generate airflow, has remained the same since the beginning. They are becoming very cheap and popular home solutions, and if you use them along with AC systems, you can lower your energy bill up to 50%.
With so many options to choose from, it is important to compare and do thorough research in order to make an informed buying decision. Below you will find detailed buying guide that is tailored to your needs if you are looking for a ceiling fan under the 500 dollar mark. You will only find the best units listed and therefore, it will be easier for you to compare and determine what ceiling fan is your best option.
Best Ceiling Fan under 500$
Minka-Aire F518-BN
100 Watt Mini-Can Halogen bulb
Designed with a brushed nickel body
44in with 14° Blade Pitch
Includes Flush Mount Canopy
Hunter 53091
LED light kit for lower energy consumption
Two 60 watt candelabra incandescent bulbs
The motor is capable of running in reverse
12 degree blade pitch optimized
Minka-Aire F844-DK
Featuring a distressed koa body
Included hand-held Remote control
Includes a six-inch downrod
Energy Star Certified. ADA Compliant
ETL Damp rated
Includes integrated light kit with Cased White glass
Two 14W Standard Medium Base CFL bulbs
standard, Low or angled mounting
Minka-Aire F518-BN Ceiling Fan
Our first pick is an elegant and stylish fan that features brushed nickel finish and comes with three durable silver blades. It made it into our top 10 list and is among the best Minka ceiling fans according to our list. The blade span measures 44 inches, and the silver blades feature 14-degree blade pitch for efficiency air circulation. This unit is extremely powerful and does not spend much energy on the highest settings. The air flow rate measures 4600 CFM using only 40 watts of electricity that results in an 115 CFM per watt air flow efficiency.
It comes with an integrated light with a frosted glass lens that covers one 100 watt bulb that is included in the package. You can also mount the fan without a light as it comes with a cover. Moreover, there is a hand-held remote control that allows you to set three-speed settings and you can program for reverse-spin that makes it suitable for year-round use. Rotate the spin direction during winter to circulate warm air around the room, and during summer you can circulate cold air around the room. There is also a lifetime warranty on this product backed up by the Minka Aire Stable.
Hunter 53091 Builder Deluxe Ceiling Fan
Our next pick is a solid ceiling fan from the Hunter team that includes a glass bowl and light kit with Toffee glass texture. The light source takes two 60W Candelabra light bulbs that are also included in the package. Moreover, it includes the highly favored Whisper-Wind technology from Hunter that features a powerful, ultra quiet motor that generates efficient and comfortable air circulation. The motor can be set to clockwise or counter-clockwise rotation for year-round air circulation. That way you can set the fan to generate downdraft during summer or updraft during winter.
This unit comes with five well-built reversible blades. To change the style, just flip the blades from Cherry style to Oak style or vice versa. Additionally, there are two other designs to choose from in the Builder Deluxe series that include a white and a brushed nickel texture. This unit is built to deliver 5110 CFM airflow by using only 64W of electricity that provides 80 CFM per watt air flow efficiency. To change the speed level and adjust the light settings, you can use the pull-chain operation. At last, there is a lifetime motor warranty and 1-year warranty on all other parts.
Minka-Aire F844-DK Ceiling Fan
Here is an elegant one light ceiling fan from the Minka Aire Light Wave Collection that features a classy Distressed Koa finish. This unit comes in brown color, but this fan is also available in silver and white. The whole unit measures 52 inches, and there are three nicely shaped blades with 48-degree blade pitch attached to a powerful motor that delivers 5024 cubic feet per minute air flow using only 65.3W.
It comes with a remote where you can adjust the illumination and set three different speed levels. You can also reverse the rotation of the blades to create a warm air circulation during winter or enjoy comfortable downdraft air flow during hot summer days. Also, there is a downrod included for easy standard or angled mounting. Moreover, Minke Aire offers their standard lifetime warranty in the unlikely event you are not satisfied with this product.
Hunter 59135 Key Biscayne Ceiling Fan
Next up is one of the most popular units from the Key Biscayne series. This unit comes with a WhisperWind motor that is designed to deliver powerful but quiet air circulation around the room. There are five elegant blades in gray pine color that provide 54 inches of blade span. The quality built motor can be set for downdraft mode during warm summer days or updraft air movement during winter time.
The Key Biscayne is an ideal ceiling fan for outdoor as it is rated for sunrooms, patios and covered porches. It also comes with a light that includes a white cased glass that covers two 14W light bulbs. To control the three-speed levels and illumination, there is a pull-chain for easy operation. This unit also comes with the choice of three mounting options for standard, low or angled ceilings. Moreover, the Hunter family offers a lifetime limited motor warranty and 1-year warranty on other parts.
7255700 Bendan Ceiling Fan
Next up is one of the most affordable ceiling fans in our countdown from the Westinghouse company. This item measures 52-Inches in diameter and comes with five strong blades and a light kit that features opal frosted glass. The light source takes one 100w halogen light bulb. This could be your number one pick if you are looking for a stylish and efficient ceiling fan for a spacious room as this unit is rated for big rooms, up to 360 square feet.
The heavy-duty motor is designed to operate on three-speed settings, and there is also a switch on the housing that allows you to reverse the spin direction to enjoy comfortable, warm air circulation during cold winter days and cold air circulation during warm summer days. The motor, along with the blades, generates 4739 CFM air flow using 60 watts of electricity that turns out as a 79 CFM per watt air flow efficiency.
Also, it includes everything for hassle-free mounting as it comes with 3/4-Inch by 4-Inch down rod. For added convenience, there is a handy remote control with a battery included. At last, Westinghouse proudly offers one of the lengthiest warranties in the business, lifetime warranty on motor and two year on all other parts.
7214100 Harmony Ceiling Fan
Next item is another Westinghouse ceiling fan from the Harmony series, and this unit features a contemporary look that comes with two unique weathered maple blades and a brushed nickel finish. It also includes an integrated opal frosted white glass bowl that covers two 40 watt light bulbs.
There is also an industrial grade motor that generates enough air movement for rooms up to 144 square feet. The motor produces 4881 CFM air flow using 53 watts with a 92 CFM per watt air flow efficiency. Additionally, the motor can be programmed for reverse-spin mode, so that you can experience comfortable air circulation during both winter and summer.
Overall, Harmony comes with a high-quality construction that boasts extremely silent operation throughout the year. This ceiling fan has been receiving fantastic ratings from happy customers that enjoy a sleek and contemporary finish with unique blades that will serve as a nice addition to any room. There is also a lifetime warranty on the motor and two-year warranty on other parts.
Minka-Aire F524-ABD Ceiling Fan
Here is a premium fan from the Roto Collection and features an elegant brushed Aluminum finish that offers conventional style to any room. This is a huge 52-inch ceiling fan with a 22-degree blade pitch that delivers the ideal air circulation in any sized room. The aluminum body construction features three well-designed silver blades and a powerful motor that produces 5816 cubic feet per minute airflow using 51.3 watts and 113.37 CFM per watt air efficiency.
There is a four-speed wall control included and also a reverse-spin switch on the motor housing for added comfort all year round. There is a 3.5″ downrod included, along with an angled ceiling adapter that works for angled ceilings up to 21 degrees. For steeper ceiling, you can invest in additional adapter that works for angled ceiling from 21 degrees up to 45 degrees. A lifetime warranty is a standard warranty for all Minka Aire products, and this unit comes with an additional 2 year warranty on other parts.
Harbor Breeze Twin Breeze Ceiling Fan
Our next recommendation is one of the most popular, efficient and unique looking ceiling fan on the market today that comes from the Harbor Breeze family. It includes six reversible brown blades that you can flip to change styles without investing in brand new blades. The body features oil rubbed bronze finish that offers an eye-catching contemporary look. It also comes with beautiful frosted glass shades that delivers ideal and comfortable illumination in your room.
The motor features three-speed levels and a capacity of delivering up to 4450 cubic feet per minute air flow at the highest speed and 57 cubic feet per minute air flow efficiency. Therefore, this is the ideal candidate for extra-large room as the overall unit provides a massive 74-inch blade span. This unit is also perfect for outdoor locations as it features the UL certification for wet environments. Harbor Breeze offers nothing but the best and the same goes for warranty, as this fan comes with a limited lifetime warranty and a 2 year warranty on parts.
7800000 Brentford Ceiling Fan
The Brentford is another outdoor rated unit that comes with five wet rated blades that measure 52 inches making this one of the efficient outdoor units for sale today. It also includes a beautiful glass-covered light kit with a light source for three 40 watt light bulbs for comfortable illumination. The motor is one of the most powerful and efficient motors in the business that delivers 5062 CFM air flow at the highest speed using only 55 watts of electricity. This equals to 92 cubic feet per minute per watt air flow efficiency.
This fan is designed to efficiently move air around big rooms up to 360 square feet. The motor is silent but powerful and comes with a reversible switch that is intended to reverse the airflow to create a year-round comfort in warm or cold weather. The majority of buyers bought this unit for their covered patios, and they are extremely happy with its performance and illumination. You will also receive a lifetime motor warranty and a two-year warranty against defects as well.
How to Spot a Quality Ceiling Fan
As we have outlined many times, the price can range from as low as 40 bucks, all the way up to $1000 and above, based on quality and efficiency. A unit that is priced well over $1000 includes numerous features that you will not be able to experience with a cheap-end ceiling fan. However, finding the middle way and look for fans that are priced below $500, but over $100 is a smart move. All the fans listed in this article will move air both efficiently and quietly.
Moreover, all the components are constructed from top class materials with stylish finishes that will last for many years to come. On top of that, the motor in all the ceiling fans listed above offers durable and consistent performance. Every quality unit also comes with a lengthy warranty that features at least 15-year motor warranty
The Ideal Ceiling Fan Size
There is no One-Size-Fits-All-Rooms ceiling fan on the market, but the rule of thumb to follow is that 52-inch fans should be used in rooms up to 400 square feet. 44-inch fans should be used in rooms up to 230 square feet while 42-inch units are ideal for rooms up to 145 square feet. For very spacious rooms, you could mount two medium-sized fans. Since we are focusing on ceiling fans that cost under five hundred dollars, it is important to know that they come in all shape and sizes.
Therefore, you should measure the room/space thoroughly because ceiling fans range from 12 inches all the way up to 73 inches. That said, for maximum performance, it is important to take into account both the height and the size of the room. This is the main reason why it is crucial that you ensure that you will end up with a unit that fits your desired space, in order to enjoy top performance. Below are few points to help you to decide what size you need for your ceiling fan.
To start with, it is important that you multiply the length and width of the room to calculate the square footage. For example, if your room is 10 feet x 10 feet, the square footage of the room is 10 multiplied by 10 that equals 100 square feet (10×10=100). Now that you have found the square footage, your next step is to measure the height from the floor to the ceiling in order to figure out the proper installation application.
There are several installation options available for you that include Flush-Mount installation for ceilings below 8 feet that mount flush to the ceiling. There is also a Standard mounting option for rooms with 8-10 feet ceiling height. The fan is mounted to the ceiling with the help of a downrod. You might also need extended downrod for ceiling 10 feet or higher. Lastly, a sloped mount is used for angled ceiling at 30 degrees or more, and the ceiling fan is mounted to the ceiling using an adapter.
Additional Sizing Tips
In order to get the most out of the performance and enjoy a comfortable air flow, it is important that you make sure that there is at least 10 inches from ceiling to the blades of the fan. Moreover, 20 inches is the minimum you should allow between the walls in the room and the blades of the ceiling fan. Furthermore, there should be at least 8 feet from the floor to the blades, and lastly, there should be at least 35 inches from the light fixture to the blades.
In conclusion, the blade span should match the room’s square footage and height. The reason is that if you happen to end up with a fan that is too compact for your room, you won’t enjoy maximum performance because the fan will have difficulty in circulating air. However, if you pick a fan that is too big, the room will look smaller, and the fan will spend too much electricity.
Blade Design
It is not only important to take into account the size of the blades because blades come in all shapes and are built from several different materials that give numerous types of different surface finishes. There are many finishes that you can choose from in blades to complement any decoration. For example, finishes include cherry, natural, oak, appliance white, chrome, burled camphor, walnut, bleached oak, black, white, granite and all kinds of different colors.
There are also some units that include reversible blades finish. For example, one side could feature bronze finish, while the other side is oak. Reversible blades offer a lot of flexibility where you can simply flip the blades to change your room’s decor and the appearance of the ceiling fan as well.
The Motor
Ceiling fans are graded based on how much air they can move. This air movement is evaluated in cubic feet per minute (CFM). These ratings (CFM) are based on full speed operation. There are other factors that determine air flow efficiency, such as the pitch angle of the blades, length and number of the blades and of course, the key element that spins the blade, the motor. Even though the ceiling fan has few and shorts blade, the motor needs to be powerful in order to deliver top notch performance because a weak motor will wobble and be a lot noisier, even at slowest speed.
There are many cheap-end ceiling fans available on the market today that feature weak motor construction that are made in China. These motors are not built to last and are poorly constructed. Apart from bad quality construction, they are noisy and they tend to wobble.
Therefore, it is important that you look for a reliable manufacturer that ensures a motor with sealed bearings that requires no lubrication. Having said that, you can always determine the reliability of the motor simply by investigating the reputation of the company and the length of the warranty it offers. The warranty is a good indicator of how much confidence the manufacturer has in its own product.
Although the motor is one of the most important elements of the ceiling fan, it is extremely easy to find out its air efficiency. Therefore, there is no technical jargon involved when you are selecting your perfect ceiling fan. However, there are few factors that you need to know about the motor before you purchase a ceiling fan.
Most, if not all, ceiling fans on the market today feature a DC motor. They are both more compact and lighter than the traditional AC motor types. This flexibility enables DC motors to provide more torque, while spending a lot less energy. Moreover, DC motors are also quieter in their operation and they generate less heat.
If you are looking for an energy efficient ceiling fan, then you should be on the look-out for the ENERGY STAR rating. This evaluation requires demanding range of requirements before the ceiling fan earns the Energy Star approval. Below, you can read, in detail, what to expect from an Energy Star product.
To begin with, they use up to 25% less energy than other fans. Also, units with light fixture use up to 60% less energy than standard fans. Moreover, you can expect a minimum 15-year motor warranty on Energy Star rated ceiling fans. Additionally, Energy Star stamped units come with minimum 1 year warranty on parts.
Furthermore, Energy Star units have to comply with different CFM air flow requirements. For example, low-speed fans, with the Energy Star stamp must include minimum 1250 CFM. Medium speed fans, with the Energy Star approval, must generate at least 3000 CFM and high-speed fan must produce minimum 5000 CFM air flow.
Have in mind that high airflow ceiling fans that include the Energy Star rating consume less energy and circulate more air than standard units. Therefore, it is important that you select a ceiling fan that includes high airflow and, preferably Energy Star rated, in order to enjoy comfortable air circulation in your desired living space.
Additional Luxury
There many comfortable accessories that come with a ceiling fan and these added extras are usually available in ceiling fans that range from $100 – $500. Most of the fans come with a light fixture that includes 1-4 light bulbs. That way, you can use the ceiling fan as the main illumination is the room.
To operate the light and speed levels, there is usually a light switch that you can operate on a hand-held remote, wall-control or use the pull-chain operation. If your desired ceiling fan does not come with a light kit, but is light compatible, it is extremely important that the adapters and the light kit come from the same manufacturer, to ensure maximum performance.
Many consumers prefer a unit that comes with a light fixture, but this is basically a personal preference. However, if the space that you have reserved to mount the ceiling fan includes sufficient light, then your best option may be an item that does not come with a light texture.
On the other hand, if you think that the space needs proper illumination, you should go for a fan that includes a light source. There are many ceiling fans for sale today that offer a wide range of illumination solutions that include LED, fluorescent or halogen. The question what to choose is just a matter of personal taste.
The halogen lights offer 1500 hours of life span and use up to 20% less energy than incandescent light solution. On the other hand, fluorescent usually last 10000 hours while using only 75% less energy than incandescent. Lastly, the LED technology feature up to 50000 hours of lifespan and consume even less energy than halogen and fluorescent light sources.
It really does not matter what ceiling fan you picked in our countdown because all of the units listed above are top-rated fans that are proofed to offer exceptional performance. Also, with all the fans for sale, the high-end units above feature different design to suit different needs and decor styles. The ceiling fans listed above are all priced below $500, and these are only top units that are known for outstanding performance and excellent reviews from customers that are very happy with their ceiling fans. We believe that the price range from $100 up to $500 is the perfect mid-way for those who are looking for added bells and whistles without having to upgrade to an expensive high-end unit and also, those who are not ready to go below the one hundred dollar mark. Here’s our ceiling fan price guide if you are still unsure about the price you are willing to pay.
As we did discuss above, there is an increasing demand for energy efficient electronics in our world and manufacturers are working hard to deliver more efficient products that spend less energy. Although that a ceiling fan can never completely replace your AC system, they can be used together to bring down the cost of your utility bill. We are confident that you now have all the information you need to make an informed buying decision to select the best ceiling fan under $500.
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Patreon Snippets 3
The following is the third volume of Patreon Snippets. Each month, every Patreon supporter who donates at least ten dollars per month is able to request five hundred words toward any subject they would like to see written about (within reason), join their idea to others to make it longer, or hold it for future installments. Thanks go to them, as well as to all supporters, and to all readers.
Columbus, Shiori, And Jiao
Through the pitch black night, three figures picked their way along a winding mountain trail. Trees lined both sides of the path, branches often sticking out in their way. Yet despite that, and despite the winding nature of the path that often seemed terribly random, none of the three ever missed a step. Through the complete darkness that came from the stars and moon being hidden behind clouds and the nearest city lights being many miles away, they nonetheless avoided every branch, stepped over every loose rock and random hole, hiking the trail as though it was illuminated by the bright light of noon.
Shiori, Columbus, and Jiao. Shiori and her mother had been spending a few days… or nights rather, each month meeting for things like these hikes, so that they could get to know each other. And this time, with her mother’s blessing, Shiori had invited her brother along, feeling that he really needed to get out. Manakel was now as dead as Charmiene. Avalon had been rescued and was recuperating at the Atherby camp. Things had… for the most part, settled down at least for the time being.
“Do you ever, umm, miss it?” Columbus, whose goggles really did allow him to see everything as if it was daytime, asked hesitantly while looking toward the taller of his two companions.
Jiao, whose vampiric gifts included the vision that allowed her to function perfectly in darkness, paused very briefly before guessing what he was referring to. “You mean the sun.”
Shiori paused as well, glancing over her shoulder at her mother. Though she wasn’t an actual vampire, she was a dhampyr, a hybrid. Which meant that her own night vision was good enough that she was no more inconvenienced by the darkness than either of the others. When she spoke up, her voice was hesitant. “It’s been a really long time, hasn’t it?”
“Two hundred and twenty-seven years,” the woman confirmed, her always soft voice even more so as she turned her head to look up at the dark, cloud-covered sky. “And yes, in some ways, I do miss it. It’s different now, with motion pictures. But back then, being away from the sun for so long was… sometimes very hard. All I had was my memories, and paintings. Over the years, I’ve seen more of it. Pictures, silent movies, when color came to the motion pictures, I was… I spent a long time watching them, because they allowed me to see the sun in real time.
“I–” Wincing, Columbus offered a weak, “I didn’t mean to make you sad or… or anything.”
Meeting his gaze, the Asian woman gave a slight shake of her head. “You didn’t make me sad, Columbus. At least, not in the way that you think. Yes, being a vampire means that I cannot function in daylight. But it also means that I am alive. If I had never met Tiras, if he had never shared his blood with me, I would have died in that hospital. I didn’t lose two hundred and twenty-seven years of sunlight. I gained two hundred and twenty-seven years of moonlight. Two hundred and twenty-seven years of seeing the world grow, of seeing society develop. I was sick, I was dying. I did not lose anything. I gained. I gained two incredible men that I love very much, along with two beautiful, amazing daughters whom I would not trade for any amount of sun.”
“But you haven’t seen them,” Shiori pointed out hesitantly. “You haven’t seen Tiras in… over two hundred years, almost as long as you haven’t seen the sun. And then you fell in love with… with my dad… with Liang, and you haven’t seen him for years either.”
Jiao gave the slightest nod. “You’re right. And I miss them both terribly. I still believe that I will see them again, that I will find them, or they will find me. But if we don’t… if I live a thousand years and never see them again, that won’t erase the reason that I love them, or the time that we did spend together. There are so many bad things in this world, and so many good things. If you spend all your time dwelling on the bad, like the years that you spend apart from someone you love, you’ll forget about the good, like the reason you miss them to begin with.”
Her golden-amber eyes remained locked on Columbus’s. “The trick is to remember that no matter what’s wrong… whether you feel lost, confused, alone… frightened… angry… betrayed, that they are your feelings. And there is nothing wrong with you for feeling that way.”
“I–” Columbus spoke that single word before his voice cracked, breaking right there as he gave a sharp shudder. His eyes closed behind those goggles, his voice a whisper that barely carried over the soft breeze. “I’m afraid.”
The admission was accompanied by a sag of his shoulders, his entire body slumping a bit. “I’m afraid. She’s dead. She’s gone. He’s dead too. They’re dead. I have protection. But it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. I’m afraid. I don’t…” Squeezing his eyes shut even tighter, along with his fists, the boy shook his head. “I don’t want to be. I don’t want to be afraid.”
He felt arms wrap around him then, recognizing his sister as she embraced him tightly. “It’s okay to be afraid, Columbus. There’s nothing wrong with that.”
His mouth opened and shut before he managed to protest, “They’re dead. They’re gone. She’s dead.”
“Oh, my boy.” Reaching past her daughter, Jiao put one gentle, soft hand against the side of his face. “The hurt and fear that someone leaves behind after they’re gone doesn’t simply disappear when they do. Bad things can last for quite awhile. But so do good things, if you let them. You want to know how to fight this, how to move on? Make new memories, better memories. Be with your family, with your friends. Do things that you enjoy.
“The pain that your demons inflicted on you doesn’t fade when they die. It fades when you live.”
Columbus couldn’t speak for another few seconds, the lump in his throat taking his voice while he simply clung to Shiori. Finally, he managed to move one arm, opening it while Shiori did the same. His own voice returned, just enough for the boy to whisper, “Thank you.”
Jiao took one step closer, letting both of her arms wrap around the two. She embraced them, brother and sister, her daughter…
And the boy she would have proudly called her son.
Lincoln and Tabbris after the hospital.
The tiny blonde girl, face still adorned by fox paint, staggered through the portal that had been opened to lead her back to the Atherby camp. Two steps through, and she was there, standing on the grass next to the lake. Standing, that was, for all of a brief second. Then her legs buckled and the girl began to collapse.
She didn’t fall far, however, before a pair of strong arms caught her. Lincoln Chambers, taking a quick knee to grab onto the girl, lifted her up smoothly while rising. “Whoa, hey there.”
Starting a bit, Tabbris belatedly realized where she was, blinking up at the man who held her in his arms. A slight tremble came to the girl, before she turned a bit to hug onto him as tightly as she could manage. “M.. Mr… Mr… I… I mean… Dad. Dad. Avalon… Avalon–”
“She’s okay,” Lincoln promised. “They’re taking care of her right now. You kept her alive, Tabbris. Brave, brave girl. You kept her alive. You saved her.”
“Columbus too,” she murmured, not relaxing her grip at all. “He’s… he’s…” She could barely speak. The exhaustion from everything she had done, even with Columbus’s help, had left her entirely too far gone. She needed to sleep. But first, she needed to know that things were okay.
“He’s okay too,” Lincoln assured the girl. “And Flick. She’ll be okay.”
“R-Rudolph won’t,” Tabbris whispered, tears suddenly filling her eyes as she shuddered. “Rudolph. Rudolph’s–”
“I know.” His own voice cracking as well, Lincoln hugged the girl tight against himself. He couldn’t say it would be okay, because it wouldn’t. Not anytime soon. A boy had been murdered by a monster, and Tabbris had seen his body. She had seen… too much. She’d seen entirely too much. Not just that night, but throughout her life. She never had a real chance to be a little kid. Even when she had been hiding inside Felicity, the girl had still needed to worry about intruders, about monsters trying to enslave or abduct her charge. And she had had no one to help her.
But she would never lack for that now. Never again. Lincoln vowed that to himself. Tabbris would never have to feel that alone again.
“You’re safe,” he whispered, holding the exhausted girl close. “Flick is safe. It’s over, my little fox-girl. It’s done. You saved Avalon. You beat them.”
Her eyes blinked up at him then, still wet from tears even as she clung desperately, both to him and to consciousness itself. “Dad,” she whispered softly. “Daddy. Please don’t go away.”
Heart aching, Lincoln shook his head. “I promise, baby girl. I promise, I’m right here. I won’t leave you alone. I’m right here. My girl. My beautiful, brave little girl.”
Tears returning, Tabbris closed her eyes briefly, shaking her head. She tried to say something else, but couldn’t find the words. And the thought of opening her eyes now that they had closed seemed an impossibly daunting task.
So she didn’t. Eyes closed, the girl turned her head a little to rest it against her father’s chest. Just for a moment, just to catch her breath. Just to feel, for a second or two, the unconditional paternal love and acceptance that she had been so starved for through so much of her life.
It would be hours before her eyes opened again. And true to his word, Lincoln stayed with her through all of it.
Lies and Pace
They were in the forest of Eden’s Garden. Pace with her fellow werewolves Valentine and the pack leader Lemuel. Facing them was the blonde girl that Doxer wanted to play with, that Felicity Chambers. Somewhere in the distance came the sound of the other girl, the one that Lemuel had turned into a werewolf. That one was currently going through her first change, and from the sound of things, it was not going well.
Pace, or Lies in that moment, had just shared her secret with the Felicity-girl, had just revealed the hilarious truth that she was both werewolf and Heretic.
Werewolf, Heretic, and Seosten Lie, but the girl didn’t need to know that part. That was an even bigger secret. Couldn’t tell her that. Couldn’t let her ruin it.
Aloud, she announced, “Shh. Nobody else gets to know. Don’t want you spoiling my secret fun. That’d be really, really mean.”
Technically, she was referring to the secret about her be a werewolf. But she also meant the secret about her being a Seosten. The secret that Felicity didn’t know yet. Sometimes Lies got herself confused about what people did and didn’t know. It was all so exhausting, keeping those secrets.
See? that voice in the back of her mind, the true Pace, who still refused to just be quiet and stop talking, put in. You keep pretending you don’t know her name. You call her Present to her face. But you think of her as Felicity. She’s a person. They’re all people. Roxa’s a person. Roxa. That’s her name. That’s the name of the person you let Lemuel put through hell. Felicity. That’s this girl’s name. You know her name.
The girl, Felic–Present was babbling. She was saying something, but then Rox–the new wolfie girl was very, very rude and interrupted with a scream of agony. So whatever Present was about to say had been forgotten, as she blurted the other girl’s name and moved as though to go to her.
Well, that was just rude. Growling deep in her throat at the sheer audacity, Lies quickly put herself back in front of the other girl. Her arms snapped up, her hands found both of Present’s shoulders, and she forcefully shoved her back a step. “No!” she blurted, “Bad present! You can’t see her now, the other one isn’t done making her change yet, and we promised she’d be alone the whole time. You don’t wanna make liars out of us, do you? Rude Present.”
Lies. Lies, look. Look. Focus. Look!
In mid-rant, the words of her host penetrated, and Lies found herself slowly lowering her gaze slightly, from Present’s face to a spot a bit lower. She saw then, what she had been too distracted by her anger to see before. She saw what her host had immediately seen, even in that brief split second when they had shoved Present.
She saw the other girl. She saw the child… the child inside of Felicity Chambers.
Seosten. A Seosten child. There was a Seosten child inside of Felicity Chambers. That was why she was immune to being possessed. All the manpower, all the time, all the arguments over what Joselyn Atherby had done to render her daughter immune to possession, all the ranting from Cahethal about the problem… and the answer had been that simple.
Felicity Chambers was possessed… by a child.
Chambers was saying something else, something about them making Roxa into a werewolf as that realization dawned on her.
“Isn’t it funny?!” Lies blurted with a loud, crazed cackle of laughter. She wasn’t talking about the Roxa girl. Who cared about the Roxa girl? She knew why Chambers couldn’t be possessed. She knew another secret.
But the others didn’t. No one knew what she knew. She had to cover. So she let them think she was talking about the Roxa girl, babbling on something ridiculous about not giving the girl her toy.
She brought up the choker, even flicking a finger against it, while keeping half an eye on the Seosten child. Was she a Lie too? Was she controlling this Felicity this whole time?
No. Felicity moved without the girl moving the same way. The girl wasn’t controlling her, she was just… standing there, so to speak. She was possessing her, but she wasn’t doing anything with it. She was just there… protecting the girl from being possessed.
This was hilarious. This was very… very funny.
So distracted was she, that Lies didn’t see the attack coming. She was caught flat footed as Felicity moved suddenly, lashing out with that staff of hers while triggering a kinetic blast that sent Pace flying off to hit a tree.
She recovered instantly, of course. But still, the girl sat there, thinking.
What are you going to do? The voice, fearful, came from the real Pace once more. You know the truth. So what are you going to do with it?
We could make Manakel love us forever, Lies pointed out. Manakel would love us. Cahethal would love us. Even Charmiene would be happy. They would tell Mama that we did good. Maybe–
You don’t believe that. The voice was soft, far different from the tone that had come before. Pace had seen as much of her mind as Lies had seen of hers. But you’re right about Manakel and the others. They’d be really happy. They’d reward you. All you have to do is tell them about that girl. All you’d have to do is tell them about the girl.
Chambers had sent herself through the trees, reappearing directly behind Lies as the girl picked herself up. Before that staff she had could reach her head, Lies had already reacted. She spun, ducking as she moved before lashing out with a punch.
The girl. The child. She needed to activate the choker again so that she could see the child.
The punch did the trick. As did grabbing hold of Felicity’s bicep to keep it active. Lies yanked too hard, breaking the girl’s arm as she threw her to the ground.
She could see her again. The child, right there in plain view. She was so… innocent, so young.
But they’ll take that away, Pace reminded her. You can make yourself the Seosten hero. All you have to do is sentence that girl to whatever Manakel and the others… like your mother, would put her through. Torture. Pain. Loss. They’ll take Felicity away from her. They’ll take that girl back to Seosten space and they will get answers out of her. But you’ll win. You’ll be the hero.
So again, what are you going to do?
In answer, Lies lashed out, kicking Chambers repeatedly while calling her a bad present.
Our secret, she informed her host. No one else’s. Ours. Maybe we’ll get the girl out later. Protect her. Have a friend. We could do that. That… that might be nice. But we don’t tell anyone. We don’t… do that to her. We make this look good. But we keep the secret.
She didn’t know this girl, didn’t know anything about her or why she was there. Or how she’d gotten there, for that matter. But she did know one thing. If it was the choice of being the Seosten hero and subjecting this girl to the same kind of things she had gone through as a child, or keeping it secret… she would keep it secret.
Because what was the point of making Manakel and the others happy and finally winning the approval that she had so desperately wanted for so long… if she couldn’t live with herself?
Tabbris and Gabriel Prosser
“Mr. Gabriel, that train is pretty big. Are you sure you can stop it?”
The question from Tabbris came as the young girl waited a little bit away from the man himself. Gabriel, meanwhile, stood in the middle of a set of the road tracks, watching the incoming freight train as it bore down on him while seeming to pick up speed with each passing second. It was no ordinary freight train, but one that had been heavily reinforced, armored by both technology and magic. The train projected a force field around itself, had heavy plating mounted to it, and there were even turrets attached to the top all along its length, one to each car.
Meanwhile, the tall, yet unassuming black man stood in its path. One hand rested lightly on the handle of his ever-present shovel, which had been pushed into the ground a bit.
In answer to the girl’s question, he gave a slight nod. “It’s quite alright, thank you. Just stay there, and no one will see you.” He had put up half a dozen protection and cloaking fields around the girl.
He could have simply send her home through a portal, of course. They had been out looking at tropical fish near an island that he had wanted to show the girl when the call came in about a train carrying prisoners and slave labor toward a Seosten transport ship had come in. He could have sent the girl home then, but she had asked to stay and watch. He would still send her away the instant anything went wrong, but for the time being, he let her stay.
The train closed on him and the first few turrets spun toward the front to take aim. The ones behind the front each rose a bit more on platforms to shoot over the others. Leaving nothing to chance, as many as possible opened fire, while the train itself picked up speed, doubling in an instant, even as the force field around the front grew even brighter and stronger.
As dozens of blasts of powerful, pulverizing energy that could have punched their way through armored tanks shot toward him, Gabriel held up his free hand. The blasts were drawn toward it, narrowing into a single dazzlingly bright beam before disappearing into the man’s palm with no more apparent effect than a flashlight.
With all that power summarily absorbed, Gabriel immediately released it once more in the form of dozens of bright blades of energy, which appeared near each turret and instantly sliced through them, leaving the guns useless.
The train itself was still bearing down. As it neared him, in the bare couple of seconds before he would have been left as a smear on the tracks, Gabriel narrowed his eyes. At a thought, two things happened. First, a pair of portals appeared directly in front of him and a bit further back, just further apart than the length of the train itself.
Second, the train’s momentum was taken away. It immediately began to slow down, passing repeatedly between the two portals as it did so. He didn’t want to instantly stop the train, to avoid injuring those on board. So, he simply gradually stole its momentum while repeatedly sending it back and forth through those two portals. From the outside, the train appeared to stay almost in one place, repeatedly running over the same path of track, while from the train’s perspective, it was still covering lots of ground.
Within a few seconds, the train was safely stopped, unable to move no matter what it drivers tried. Almost as quickly, dozens of armored soldiers appeared, dropping off of the train or scrambling up on its roof to surround the man who had stop them. Their weapons were raised and ready. Before long, fifty troops of various shapes and sizes were there.
In response to all of this, as their weapons were leveled and the troops awaited the order to attack, Gabriel spoke three simple words.
“You may surrender.“
They didn’t, of course. But he had to offer. Instead, as their leader shouted a single word, the soldiers all opened fire, or used whatever ranged power they happened to have. Whatever it took, they would destroy him. Dozens of energy blasts, fireballs, jets of ice, hyper-accelerated metal balls, contained explosions, and more collided with the man in a terrifying display of power.
Then it was over. The dust cleared, and Gabriel Prosser stood entirely unaffected. Not a single attack had managed to so much as ruffle his shirt.
“Okay,” he said then, even as the troops prepared to attack again. With that simple word, Gabriel lifted his shovel from the dirt and drove it down hard once more.
As the blade of the shovel was driven through the dirt, dozens of copies of it appeared simultaneously. They shot up out of the ground, out of thin air, or out of the side or roof of the train itself. The duplicated shovel blades instantly grew to several times their normal size while glowing with unbelievable power. Each was positioned perfectly to slice straight through one of the soldiers. No armor or protection could save them. The troops, to a man, were instantly cut in half from every direction by that single thrust.
Throughout all of this, Gabriel had only moved twice. Once to raise his hand, and the second time to lift his shovel and drive it down once more. Now the train was stopped, its mounted weaponry destroyed, and its troops eliminated.
“Okay,” the man announced simply, turning to where Tabbris was.
“Let’s see how our new friends on board are doing.”
Young Chayyiel
“And then Trierarch Bayest drew his gun, pointed at the Fomorian on the ground, and said, ‘You didn’t leave one survivor, you’ve left two.’ And then he pulled the trigger and blew the Fomorian’s whole head into splatter dust like fwoomsh!”
With the end of her pronouncement, the young Chayyiel suddenly threw her arms wide open, going as far as jumping into the air to demonstrate the explosive nature of the aforementioned head explosion. She added in her best approximation of gooey noises as well right at the end, as if demonstrating the resulting gore dripping from the walls.
The first of her two-member audience who had been listening to the girl’s story gave her a broad smile. Abaddon, his enormous figure completely dwarfing the child’s as they stood on one of the Olympus’s space observation decks, raised his hand. His thumb was lightly pressed against the side of his index finger, while the other three fingers were tucked down against his palm. Millennia in the future and far away, the human equivalent of that gesture would be a thumbs up.
“That’s right, aucellus,” he announced, using his favored nickname for the child. “That’s exactly how that went down. I should know, I was the other survivor. And Bayest was one of the most badass trierarchs I ever had the pleasure of serving under.”
The other occupant of the observation deck grunted in disbelief. Cahethal, her incredibly, distractingly green eyes focused on the man, disbelievingly asked, “Are you quite certain that you’re not exaggerating even a little bit? I find it difficult to believe that one man, no matter how talented he may be, was capable of single-handedly wiping out an entire Fomorian strike force, no matter how motivated he may have been.”
Grunting, Abaddon thumped a fist against his chest. “You believe what you want, science girl. I know what I saw. Bayest is the biggest damn hero of the Seosten that I’ve ever met. And there ain’t never going to be another one like him.”
“You just said—” In mid-sentence, Cahethal visibly gave up and shook her head with a sigh. “Never mind.”
She focused on Chayyiel then. “Come, you know that you are here for more than simply listening to totally exaggerated war stories.”
Obediently, Chayyiel moved over to stand next to the woman who had, over the past year or so since the ship had launched, taken up a role as one of her teachers.
Once the girl was there, Cahethal asked, “You asked to work on your experiment here on the observation deck so you could watch the stars. Are you sure you won’t be too distracted? And did you bring your materials?”
Quickly nodding, the girl promised, “I’ll work on it. I have my things right over there.” She pointed to a couple of cloth bags sitting near the entrance. “Thank you, praeceptor. It’s so boring in the test lab.”
Grunting a little, Cahethal simply gave a single nod. “Just be sure that you do not make me regret this allowance. I will return in one hour and I hope to see some definite progress.”
As the girl fervently promised to get her work done, Cahethal and Abaddon stepped out, leaving her alone for the time being. On his way, the large man glanced back and winked at her. “Biggest badass of the Seosten, kid. You remember that. Maybe you’ll get lucky and meet him one day.”
Once they were gone, Chayyiel move to the nearest wall and used the screen there to call up an exterior view of the ship. She stood there, smiling giddily at the projected image.
“Oh Olympus,” the girl murmured while running her hands through the holographic shape, “you’re the most amazing ship in the universe.”
Bias aside, the girl wasn’t that far off. Though their crew was somewhat limited only to those who had passed through the Summus Proelium Project, it was easily state of the art. The latest in technology and magic lay at their fingertips. The Olympus was truly remarkable in every conceivable way.
The main central body of the ship was made up of an orb exactly five hundred meters in diameter. This was where the living and science facilities, as well as the primary slide-drive that allowed the ship to enter what amounted to hyperspace, were. Attached to that orb in three separate places (the top and both sides) were three long structures that extended about twenty meters behind the orb, continued along the outside of the orb and ahead past it another one hundred. Each of the three structures was shaped roughly like part of a cylinder, curved inward so that they lay almost flat against the surface of the orb itself. They were wide enough that with one on top and the two equidistant apart on the bottom left and bottom right of the orb, each nearly touched one of the others. The far end of each of these part-cylinder structures narrowed into sharp points, forming a jagged end.
At an order from the ship’s captain, each of those three (or fewer if needed) could separate from the main orb. As it did so, that half-cylinder would extend its sides, opening wing-like structures so that it could function as a separate combat-capable ship. When all four of its pieces were locked in place, the Olympus was a terrifyingly powerful vessel for its size, precisely because it was essentially three gunships mounted against a very well shielded central core. It could fight like that, as one, or separate itself into the three distinct combat ships and one command orb that could stay to direct the battle, or flee with all of their intact leadership and resources if need be. The separate, incredibly heavily armed combat ships had their own slide-drives just in case, but they were only rated for a much slower jump, used for emergencies. The vast majority of their power and available space was given to shields and weapons. There was no doubt about their intended purpose.
As the girl stood there admiring the hologram, the nearby door slid open, admitting Amitiel to the observation room. “Hey, kid,” he started with a wave. “Thought you might like some company.“
Immediately smiling, Chayyiel nodded. “Hi, Uncle Amitiel.” She paused, turning to look both ways before taking a bit of metal from her pocket. Her thumb pressed against it and she murmured a spell that she had picked up from a few of the adults. After a second of that, she nodded. “It’s okay, nobody’s watching.”
With that established, she then asked, “Did you think about what we were talking about? The bit about you having your own name, I mean.”
Shaking his head, the being who had once been known as a Lie before taking the body of the true Amitiel replied, “It might’ve been over a year, but I’m still getting accustomed to answering to his name. Besides, what’s the point of having a name that only you or I know about?”
Shrugging, Chayyiel answered, “Other people might know someday. You can trust Sariel and Lucifer, you know.”
Rather than directly respond to that, Amitiel asked, “How are you doing with them still being gone on that mission? You alright?”
Looking back that way, Chayyiel hesitated, biting her lip before honestly answering, “I miss them. I know we have to maintain radio silence and everything, but we don’t even know if they’re okay.”
“Don’t you worry,” Amitiel assured her. “You know how good those two are. Kushiel may have pushed for them to go that first time just to get rid of them, but they showed her, didn’t they?”
The girl swallowed at that memory before giving a short nod. “Why does Kushiel hate them so much?”
The question made him sigh, hanging his head before shaking it. “Why does Kushiel do anything? She pretty much hates everyone she can’t control, and you know how Lucifer is about people trying to control him or his partner.”
Frowning, Chayyiel folded her arms across her chest while her brow knitted. “Kushiel isn’t very nice. But Uncle Puriel is… usually. Except when he listens to her.” She paused briefly before amending, “Okay, sometimes he’s nice. But she’s never nice. So how come he likes her so much?”
Amitiel opened his mouth, before pausing to shake his head. “You know what kid, I think you just stumbled across one of the great mysteries of the universe. I mean, sure, she’s pretty and all, but…” He paused again, then shrugged helplessly. “Yeah, sorry, I’ve got nothing.”
Changing the subject then, the man asked, “So what kind of project are you doing for the old microscope?”
Giggling despite herself, Chayyiel chastised, “You shouldn’t call her that. Just because she’s short and has special eyes…”
“Still makes you laugh though,” Amitiel pointed out with a wink. “So about this project, you wanna show me?”
Brightening, the girl asked, “Do you want to help me with it? The stuff is right there.” She pointed to the bags next to him.
Amitiel glanced down before grabbing the bags to walk that way. “Sure, why not. Let’s see what we’re working with.
“And while we work, you can tell me what outrageous story Abaddon’s filled your head with this week.”
Aylen Tamaya
Alone in the room that she shared with Koren Fellows, Aylen Tamaya stood at the window, gazing down at the grassy field where her fellow students walked, sat, or even ran. They studied and worked there, enjoying the always-beautiful afternoon on the magical island.
The Native American girl’s eyes found their way to one group in particular. Sitting there on the grass, engrossed in another of their deeply private conversations, were Columbus Porter, Sean Gerardo, Felicity Chambers, Douglas Frey, and Scout Mason. Avalon wasn’t there, because she had been hurt, taken by monsters and terribly hurt in some way before being rescued by her team, and by Gaia. She was recovering now, apparently, off in some secret place with people the Crossroads headmistress trusted.
Aylen hoped that the girl was okay. Avalon had… had helped her when she really needed it. Without her, Aylen’s… secret would have gotten out. She wouldn’t have been able to stop it. She owed her life to the other girl, and so much more. If there was anything she could have done to help Avalon, she would have, without a second thought.
But the others, the rest of Avalon’s team, didn’t trust her. And she didn’t blame them. Why wouldn’t they keep secrets? After all, she was keeping a very big one. One that she had even convinced Avalon herself to keep for her. A secret from everyone, except for Avalon, now.
Whatever problems Avalon’s team was going through, Aylen wished that she could help. But that would mean revealing herself, revealing the truth about what she was. And that was… that was too much. She wanted to help, but exposing herself like that, revealing herself was… she couldn’t do that. Not yet. No matter what Avalon had said about how they could be trusted.
She’d promised to think about it, and she would, she had, quite a lot. More than once, Aylen had stood outside either Felicity or Scout’s door, sometimes in the middle of the night, and tried to work up the courage to knock. She wanted, so badly, to tell them everything.
But she didn’t. She couldn’t. Not only from a lack of trust, or an overabundance of fear. But also because whatever they were going through, it would be so much worse if they had to deal with her problems too. And that wasn’t fair to them. Felicity and the others had far too much to deal with as it was without Aylen piling onto the secrets they were keeping.
With a sigh, the girl gave the group one last look before turning away from the window. She walked from there to the wall, where a mirror had been mounted. Standing there, she faced the mirror and examined herself, seeing what others saw when they looked at her.
Dark hair that fell to her shoulders. Dusky skin. High cheekbones. Dark eyes. As she examined herself from each angle, Sovereign, her cyberform hawk, made a noise from where was perched on his wooden stand. The nest that he slept in was on top of Aylen’s dresser nearby.
“I know, Sovereign,” the girl assured her partner. “We’ll leave soon, I promise. I just have to see.”
From her pocket, she withdrew a small comb. The comb had been a gift. Running a thumb over the runes etched in it, the girl slowly touched it to the side of her face, and whispered the activation spell.
In an instant, she changed. And Aylen saw her true form. Her skin was still dark, testament to her true Native American roots. Or at least, those of her mother. Or at least… one of her mothers. What the comb revealed was the genetic contributions of her other mother.
Her first mother’s contribution to the child made possible by the being known as Grandfather was her Native American appearance. Sonoma had also passed along her werecrow gifts. Aylen had kept them secret ever since she had come to this school, though she had gifted herself a few private flights with Sovereign whenever she needed to clear her head.
But as the magical comb revealed her true self, Aylen saw the parts of her that she had inherited from her other mother.
Eyes that were a deep azure blue.
Hair that was much the same. Blue. The blue of the cloudless sky.
The blue of the Reapers. Or a half-reaper, like her second mother, Bastet.
Bastet and Sonoma, her mothers. And with any luck at all, Aylen would soon be able to save her grandfather.
No, not that one. Her other grandfather. Bastet’s father.
What Crossroads called the Heretical Edge.
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CakeOrrDeath says:
That was a great idea. Likely gained yourself another Patron.
Aww, good to hear. And glad you liked it.
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So… why doesn’t sunlight reflected off the moon hurt vampires?
Rey d`Tutto says:
Sunlight is as hot as the sun, so focusing it with a lens may start fires. Moonlight is much colder, and will not start a fire regardless of how concentrated it is.
Better explanation here–> https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/
That is a very interesting and cool explanation.
Mirrors and illusions. Mirrors and illusions. >_>
izikblu says:
Wow, I see we’ve moved past half-alter into quarter-alter territory, at what point does someone become not alter enough for them to effectively be normal humans?
Hendy853 says:
Aylen’s particular case may be too weird to be used as an example. She’s quarter-Reaper, but the werecrow part may be throwing off the human percentage. And Grandfather may have meddled with her genetics enough to throw it off even more.
For the children of more typical hybrids, I’ll guess that quarter Alters are already effectively humans.
Prince Pondincherry says:
I think there was a WoG that quarter Alters (and even smaller percentages) have a higher chance of bonding with/inheriting powers from through killing (if they become Bosch Heretics) the Alter of their ancestor. But other than that, I agree that quarter Alters are probably effectively humans. I’m pretty sure there was a WoG that only half-Alters (normally) have the anti-possession defense. (I think you might know this already, but now it’s public in the comments on the chapter.)
For a second there I was wondering why the oldest and probably strongest being on Earth would need saving, then Aylen clarified things.
Poor Ruthers. Poor Seosten. If they knew a human/reaper/werecrow/fomorian science project was attending Crossroads, they’d scream. Of course, if they knew everything that was going on in that school, they’d just die of apoplexy.
vladspellbinder says:
That last line. I’d had done a spit take had I been drinking anything. As it was I still choked.
Well, at least we know one more side secret now. And boy will that be a bomb when it drops on the main group.
– So I really like the first snippet. It’s more or less everything I hoped it would be. I had this feeling Jiao would be able to help Columbus at least a little bit, and it looks like I was right. His dynamic with Shiori’s vampire-family is something I’m very interested in seeing going forward.
– Noting that bit about Cahethal angrily ranting about Flick’s apparent immunity for later. As well as the fact that Lies/Theia was close enough to her to hear it.
– I’ll admit to being a little disappointed the observer in the Prosser section was Tabbris. I was expecting it to be someone new, or someone we know but haven’t seen much of. Oh well.
– Again, I don’t see any great mystery about Puriel and Kushiel. Pushing each other to be more effective, matching ambitions, shared opinions, enjoying each other’s company, etc. They’re private enough (especially back then) that it’s not readily apparent and Chayyiel’s probably new enough to her powers at that point (and young enough) where she can’t access any skill she had on demand.
– I’m not really sure how I feel about the Aylen or the many implications it raises. Obviously something to keep an eye on going forward.
clarksavagejr says:
Normally I’m not one to point out grammar or spelling errors, but these are a bit confusing to read.
Second, the train’s momentum was taken away. It immediately began to slow down, passing repeatedly between the two portals as it did sell. (I think “sell” should be “so.”)
Almost as quickly, dozens of armored soldiers appeared, during the south off of the train or up on its roof . . .. (“dropping off the south side of the train or its roof. . ..” would make more sense.)
Thanks a lot! Fixed.
landcollector says:
> I didn’t lose two hundred and twenty-seven years of sunlight. I gained two hundred and twenty-seven years of moonlight. Two hundred and twenty-seven years of seeing the world grow, of seeing society develop. I was sick, I was dying. I did not lose anything. I gained. I gained two incredible men that I love very much, along with two beautiful, amazing daughters whom I would not trade for any amount of sun.”
This is a remarkable positive outlook for Jiao to have, though it is almost certainly one that took time and a lot of thinking and self-reflection to come to.Wrt seeing the sun, the wonders of technology could and did provide at least some form of solace and alternatives.
>Her eyes blinked up at him then, still wet from tears even as she clung desperately, both to him and to consciousness itself. “Dad,” she whispered softly. “Daddy. Please don’t go away.”
Your heart’s not the only one aching, Lincoln. T_T That Tabbris can even be cheerful/happy at all after her short life thus far being full of loneliness, fear etc.is a good sign. Though, as much as Flick needs a break, arguably Tabbris does even more so.
>Lies and Pace
I appreciate just how this scene puts a whole new light on Theia’s actions during that engagement in the forest.
>Second, the train’s momentum was taken away. It immediately began to slow down, passing repeatedly between the two portals as it did so. He didn’t want to instantly stop the train, to avoid injuring those on board. So, he simply gradually stole its momentum while repeatedly sending it back and forth through those two portals. From the outside, the train appeared to stay almost in one place, repeatedly running over the same path of track, while from the train’s perspective, it was still covering lots of ground.
This has been Applied Physics using Portals, taught by Prof. Gabriel Prosser. Also, *Unlimited Shovel Works*? I am amused and impressed, both at that and in the pure economy of movement he used in dealing with the situation.
>The blue of the Reapers. Or a half-reaper, like her second mother, Bastet.
The Web surrounding the Edge grows ever more tangled with this, geeze. The idea that Aylen is part werecrow (which is odd in itself for me) and part Reaper is very interesting, and potentially terrifying if she got a strong doese of the bloodline and learns to harness it effectively.
A great series of snippets. My thanks to the Patreon supporters and Cerulean.
PandaGrill says:
I knew Sonoma was going to be important, shame we never got that interlude with her. It’s nice to see some of these shorter interludes but I wonder how they would fit for people not reading weekly. Would they be at the end of an arc like mini-mini-interludes?
In this case, it works pretty well where it is because the third chapter of this arc (which just came out) is not connected to the first two chapters. There’s a time jump there and a different subplot going on, so there’s no real problem with having a bit of an interruption, narratively.
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Fatburger Coming Soon to South Surrey’s Grandview Central Shopping Centre
by admin December 11, 2017 0181
Enjoy Buffalo’s™ World Famous wings, tenders, and breakfast, too
SOUTH SURREY, BC, December 11, 2017 – Fans of big and juicy Fatburgers with all the fixings can soon indulge their taste buds when British Columbia’s latest edition of the popular burger chain opens in South Surrey’s new Grandview Central Shopping Centre.
A mid December opening date is anticipated for the 2,000-square foot restaurant, which will have a convenient location in the centre anchored by Real Canadian Superstore and Shoppers Drug Mart. Grandview Central is strategically positioned within South Surrey’s main retail arterial along Highway 99 and 24th Avenue, and services one of the province’s most affluent markets.
For more than a decade, Fatburger has been one of Canada’s fast-growing and most popular burger chains acclaimed for serving up some of Canada’s biggest and juiciest burgers, as well as Buffalo’s™ world-famous wings and tenders and delicious breakfasts in many locations.
The new Fatburger is the second franchise for Ravi Sidhu. Ravi became franchisee for the Fatburger location in Ladner in January of 2016. But her experience with the iconic cooked-to-order burger chain began in 2008 when she was the manager of a location in White Rock. She was then recruited into the corporate support centre as a franchise district manager. Her self-confidence and strong track record eventually led to the opportunity to take the helm of a Fatburger franchise, herself.
“We are delighted with Ravi’s customer-service oriented approach to operating a Fatburger restaurant and are confident her unbridled enthusiasm and love of our brand will translate into success in her newest venture,” said Frank Di Benedetto, CEO, president and owner of the FDF Restaurant Brandz franchise system that includes the Fatburger Canada chain. Fatburger traces its roots back to the 1950s in Los Angeles when the word fat meant cool or hip.
In keeping with the Fatburger tradition, the new 50-seat location will feature an open kitchen, allowing guests to order at the counter and enjoy watching their meals being cooked, along with up-to-the-minute technology like flat screen TVs and a roaring sound system. Convenient takeout service will also be available.
The new restaurant will be serving delicious choices for breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week. Start your day with a hearty breakfast with combinations of eggs, home-style hash browns, maple bacon, breakfast sausage and fluffy buttermilk pancakes sized to suit every appetite, and enjoy breakfast sandwiches served on buttered brioche buns available all day.
Each and every burger is made with fresh, never frozen, hand-pressed Alberta Angus beef — with no additives, binders or fillers. Fatburgers can be enjoyed with all the usual condiments, plus many inspired choices such as chili, maple bacon, mushrooms, guacamole, pineapple, jalapenos, an assortment of cheeses, and even a fried egg. Only the freshest produce, including hand-cut lettuce and award winning centre-cut beefsteak tomatoes, qualify to be served on a Fatburger.
For hungrier patrons, there’s a half-pound Kingburger, a three-quarter pound Double Fatburger, and the baddest burger on the block – the Triple Kingburger. This monster of a burger features three half-pound patties of Angus beef served on an artisan sesame seed bun with lettuce, pickles and your choice of cheese, plus tomato, onion and any of Fatburger’s other complimentary tasty toppings.
But there’s more on the menu than burgers. Delicious options include lean sage and rosemary infused turkey burgers, and custom-made veggie burgers, both made exclusively for Fatburger. There’s an assortment of chicken sandwiches made with full-sized marinated chicken breasts. Fatburger also offers “Lettuce Wrap your Burger,” a gluten free, low-carb option for beef burgers and chicken sandwiches.
In the mood for chicken? Fatburger is proud to serve Buffalo’s™ World Famous Wings and Tenders. The big, juicy chicken wings are fried to perfection and coated with your choice of signature sauce. The chicken tenders are made-to-order using plump and juicy chicken tenderloin, lightly battered, hand breaded and fried to perfection.
Of course, they haven’t left the kids out either, offering them combos featuring a cheeseburger, hotdog, grilled cheese sandwich or chicken tenders that include fries and a choice of soda, milk or lemonade.
Ready for something sweet? Try the mini donuts dusted with sugar and cinnamon and served with caramel sauce for dipping. To complement the chain’s premium burger selections and other entrees are its “best anywhere” milkshakes made with real high butter fat, hand-scooped ice cream. In fact, Fatburger has six delicious flavors of shakes to choose from, plus a seasonal feature flavour.
Guests can also order refreshing beers on tap by the glass or pint, plus bottled Corona and Heineken, along with frozen strawberry and lime-flavoured margaritas, and Smirnoff Ice and Mott’s Clamato Caesar cocktails.
Grandview Central will be the 53rd Fatburger restaurant in Canada, with locations in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and the Northwest Territories.
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Charitable Purposes
Landmark Trees
Hay Time Project
Schools Farm Visit Fund
Pollinator Patches
Lancaster Beekeepers have been busy creating pollinator patches around the villages of Caton and Hornby, and at the Crook of Lune. The patches are usually small unkept corners of ground which the volunteers have identified. After obtaining landowner support and permissions the sites have been cleared, seeded and then left to nature! This summer the annual wildflowers are blooming and buzzing with life, thanks to a small grant from Champion Bowland and lots of hard work and commitment – well done everyone!
A Selection of Projects we have funded
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Thornley Community Hub
Volunteers conversting derelict Thornley School into a community hub are on track to open later this year thanks to a grant from Champion Bowland. The £ 750...
Busy Buzzy Bees
Thousands of newcomers to Bentham are settling in nicely, thanks to a £750 Champion Bowland grant - plus £250 from the local Riverside Caravan Park and a £175...
Keasden Head Farm : Outdoor Classroom
Champion Bowland have awarded a grant to an upland farm towards developing an outdoor classroom on the farm.
Lune Valley Swifts
Swifts are one of the delights of summer but they are in decline nationally with estimates that their population has declined by a half over the last twenty...
Thornley Community Space
The former Thornley School is being transformed by volunteers into a community space for local people, visitors, tourists and the wider Forest of Bowland...
Lancashire Best Kept Village
The organisers of this competition received a grant to purchase a digital projector and screen which they will use to assist in the training of their judges...
Bleasdale Bird Hide
The bird hide near Bleasdale Cottages was originally built ten years ago with support from the AONB's sustainable development fund. Owners Robert and Anne...
Bolton by Bowland Heritage Trail
The village of Bolton by Bowland have recently been busy putting together a new Heritage Trail booklet for the area. Champion Bowland was pleased to be able...
Lancaster Beekeepers have been busy creating pollinator patches around the villages of Caton and Hornby, and at the Crook of Lune. The patches are usually...
Dunsop village green shelter
Mrs Amanda Parker JP, High Sheriff of Lancashire officially opened a shelter on the village green at Dunsop Bridge on Thursday 14th January 2016....
Hurst Green Church Goes Wild
The Church Goes Wild project at St John's church in Hurst Green has bought a moth trap with funds from Champion Bowland. Church Goes Wild is a...
A Day in the Life of Bentham 2015
The Friends of Bentham Station approached Champion Bowland for a grant to help re run a project cataloguing life in Bentham using public photographers. The...
Friends of Beacon Fell Hay Meadow
The Friends of Beacon Fell are a group of volunteers who support activity and conservation works at this important country park in the south west of the...
Knowle Green Churchyard Railings
Chipping Walks Book
“15 Circular Walks Around Chipping” takes you along the footpaths, bridleways and quiet country lanes that surround this attractive village. The...
AONB/RSPB Schools' Outreach Project
During the school year 2010-11, skilled teachers from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds have delivered a project for 11 primary schools in...
Chipping In Bloom
‘Chipping in Bloom’ began in 2008 and its main objective is to create lasting improvements to the village for the benefit of residents, workers and...
Scorton Flower Festival
This event featured local wildflowers and information about the Forest of Bowland AONB. The Festival was a great success, attracting many visitors and now a...
Ballads of the Beast of Bowland
This piece of outdoor theatre was run by Spot On in partnership with local families from the Hodder Valley. 17 young people developed a performance...
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Ash dieback. Increasing storms bringing down centuries old Beech trees. Service providers damaging roots of our street trees. The threats to our landmark trees have never been greater.We want to plant the next generation of Landmark Trees in Bowland for future generations. This 'visitor-giving' project aims to work with local businesses, visitors and residents . READ MORE about how you can take part and nominate your 'Landmark' Tree.
PHOTO: Our FIRST Landmark Tree: The Seafood Pub Company’s Nina Finn plants the first sapling for Champion Bowland’s Landmark Trees initiative outside the Assheton Arms in Downham – watched by (from left to right): Sandra Silk, Paul Reynolds, Issie Kenyon, Robin Gray, Lady Clitheroe, Mike Pugh and Hetty Byrne.
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Noah Smith Inks Deal for New Release
Monday, July 31, 2017, 8:00am
Cincinnati singer Noah Smith loves the grind of the music industry! He is now getting to see first-hand how all the weekly trips from The Queen City to Music City pays off. Smith is gearing up for the release of his new single and studio album. His new single, “We're On Fire” will debut August 4th at the Ludlow Garage in Clifton with Wilder and Meaghan Farrell. What makes this release very different is Smith and his band will have the backing management support of Rome, Georgia and Nashville, Tennessee based BIGFOOT Music and Outdoors.
Noah Smith will join the BIGFOOT stable of performers that includes the Grammy winning band Shenandoah. Smith will join the ranks of other performers who have opened for, or performed with the likes of Luke Bryan, Josh, Blake Shelton, Allison Kraus, Gretchen Wilson, Little Texas and David Allan Coe. In the past year, Smith himself has opened for Josh Turner, Cassadee Pope and The Steve Miller Band.
Noah is Ohio proud! He is a Brown County boy at heart but this past year he has been grinding out an un relenting performing schedule from Cincinnati to Sin City. He has touched down at Nashville’s historic Blue Bird as well as the MGM Grande in Las Vegas. You can feel this young father’s Ohio love in many of his songs, Smith, who turned his graduation tassel at the prestigious University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, also graduate from Western Brown Ohio And spends his time split between his Ohio home and Nashville, Tennessee.
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CK Group Recognised as Top 2015 UK Supplier
CK Group, the leading independent staffing and recruitment company is proud announce that it has received the Gold award for service excellence from Agile-1. Directors Liam O’Connell and Lorna Crombie of CK Group accepted the award during Agile-1’s 2015 UK Supplier Excellence Summit, held on Thursday, 1 October at The Grange St. Paul’s Hotel in London, England.
“It is our pleasure to take time to honour our UK supplier partners for their outstanding support of our programmes,” said Mr. Peter Carvalho, President of Agile-1. “Our suppliers play a critical role in helping us achieve our business objectives, and we look forward to our continued success with these exceptional companies.”
CK Group is currently working with Agile-1 on two major pharmaceutical projects, providing scientific, technical and clinical staff via the company’s brands CK Science, CK IT and CK Clinical.
Operations Director Liam O’Connell said, “We have worked with Agile-1 for several years now and have established an excellent working relationship with them, based on mutual trust and respect. We hope to continue building on that relationship in the coming months and years in the UK and in Europe. We are of course delighted to accept this award on behalf of all the CK staff and contractors concerned and would like to thank every single one of them for their valued contribution. The award is testament to the commitment we have made as a company to excel in all our business activities and reflects our flexibility as an organisation to provide services under a range of business models.”
“At Agile-1 we strive to connect, build, and foster strong relationships with high-performing suppliers who share our commitment to service excellence,” said Jaideep Majumdar, Senior Director, Global Strategic Sourcing for Agile-1. “We design our supplier management programme to ensure that these suppliers also derive value and recognition in return for the value they create for our clients.
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Clothes from 1960s, Girls in Films, Premium
Beyond Biba, Beyond Fashion
12 Nov ’10 /
Biba did things differently. It was a shopping revolution. If a Biba sales assistant approached a potential customer browsing and asked “Can I help you?” they would have been fired on the spot. Biba was unique. Topshop is not Biba.
Beyond Biba: A Portrait of Barbara Hulanicki (directed by Louis Price, 2009) is exactly that; a relatively short (56 minutes) but detailed look at a woman defined by the brand she created. This is a patient story, surprising in parts but mostly just enlightening. There is much to learn from this film, although it never feels as though you are being lectured.
The innovative fashion and lifestyle brand Biba was started by Barbara Hulanicki and her husband Stephen Fitz-Simon as a mail order boutique in 1964, expanding to four direct selling shops, all in London, all within easy walking distance of each other. In 1969 they opened an epic seven storey department store that sold almost everything. From A-line shift dresses and wellingtons to make-up and even Biba blend coffee.
Biba eventually closed its doors in 1975, a year after Barbara walked following internal disagreements with the majority company who had taken control. This was not the result of quality concerns over the admittedly inexpensive clothing (a common misconception), but rather Barbara and Fitz hoping to expand the Biba name ever further and needing help to do so. Corporate hit creative and the whole venture fell apart within months.
Barbara Hulanicki started her career as a fashion illustrator while Fitz cut his teeth in advertising (“rather badly” he states, charmingly, during some archive footage in the film). This ensured a perfect partnership; he handled the business side while Barbara concentrated on making the clothes. She lost Fitz to cancer in 1997 and now resides permanently in Miami, Florida as a successful interior designer, a key player in the area’s hotel regeneration during the last quarter of a century.
Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1936, Barbara came to London as a child following the death of her father by terrorists. Setting up Biba in her late twenties, she effectively became the brand; Barbara Hulanicki is Biba. Or rather she was, as it has since been taken away from her.
All subsequent relaunches of Biba, most recently by UK department store House of Fraser just this year have not been endorsed by Barbara Hulanicki, mainly because she believes they misrepresent the ethos of Biba as affordable, up to the minute fashion. She did, however, relent somewhat to design a collection of jersey mini dresses, colourful chiffon frocks and other original capsule pieces for Topshop in 2009.
What exactly is Biba though? What did it mean to the sixties? Biba broke the rules, or rather it changed the rules for young people. During a time when a young woman would still dress in the image of her mother, Biba encouraged a whole new look (at least as revolutionary as the actual Dior ‘New Look’ in 1947) of low cost, sexy, feminine separates – an entire outfit could be put together under one roof.
Colours came dark and smudgy, as per the Biba logo; Art Deco influence combined with Art Nouveau. Lots of browns and black, leopard skin prints diagonal stripes. This styling remained distinctive throughout, especially for evening wear. Barbara had a fondness for the Golden Age of Hollywood and reflected this in glamorous bias cut dresses, feather boas and flared skirts. Daytime features included puffed sleeves and high buttoned necklines. Jumpsuits, maxi coats, mini dresses and longer line skirts all proved to be popular staples.
The Biba look has since been recreated across the high street. Even now big stores look to Biba for inspiration as they recycle for a new generation. Yet more often than not modern shops misunderstand exactly what ensured Biba’s survival as a name. The aforementioned quote concerning firing staff for approaching customers is no myth. Biba concentrated on fulfilling a need for the customer, not dictating one.
Perhaps this is what Topshop and the like fail to understand? They know shoppers hate to be bothered when browsing and yet continue to do so. Biba would not do anything the customer did not want. Take the now famous communal (same sex) changing rooms, for example. These were the result of eager buyers simply desperate to try on clothes as quickly as possible. The concept stayed because it worked.
Another aspect of Biba that may struggle to find mass acceptance today is Barbara Hulanicki’s praise of thin, an ideal that comes through in the film via her beautiful fashion illustrations (one has ‘Big heads, small flat chested bodies’ scrawled next to it). Barbara is a product of her time, a time she helped define. Though if this sixties, no body, flat chested look is no longer achievable, or desirable, for most young women, then judging by the success of House of Fraser’s Biba relaunch, a significant niche is willing to subsidise them. The brand now survives as an archetype more than anything else.
The final portion of Beyond Biba deals almost exclusively with Barbara’s journey as an interior designer in Miami Beach, post-Biba but still in keeping with those Deco-esque stores she herself decorated. For those seeking primarily Biba this part of the story is predictably less exciting. And yet the clue is in the title; this is not a ‘fashion film’, more a contextualised examination of one woman’s extraordinary influence on popular culture. A legacy that Barbara Hulanicki, seemingly modest as she is, fails to truly recognise.
Beyond Biba: A Portrait of Barbara Hulanicki is available on DVD from November Films and Amazon Video On Demand, plus continues to show at selected cinemas across the UK.
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A New System of Arithmetic, on the Cancelling Plan: Embracing the Rules of ...
Από τον/την Charles Guilford Burnham
A RI T H M E TIC,
CANCELLING PLAN:
EMBRACING THE
RULES OF THREE, SINGLE AND DOUBLE, DIRECT AND INVERSE;
BARTER; LOSS AND GAIN; REDUCTION, MULTIPLICATION
AND DIVISON OF FRACTIONS ; EXCHANGE OF
PUBLISHED BY MARSH, CAPEN & LYON.
NEW-YORK:
DANIEL APPLETON & CO.
Entered according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1837,
By CHARLES G. BURNHAM, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of New Hampshire.
ASA M'FARLAND, PRINTER.
tele 6-18-39 34424
5-20-38. HRT
The author of this Arithmetic has been engaged for some years past in the business of instruction, during a part of the time as a teacher of young ladies, and at other times as an instructor of pupils of both sexes. He has uniformly found, that there has been less interest excited in the study of Arithmetic than in most other branches of education.
In Rhetoric, Philosophy, Chemistry, Geography and History, there are many individuals in our schools who eagerly pursue their inquiries, while in Arithmetic this is rarely the case. Something may be set down to the circumstance, that the study of Arithmetic is more solitary in its character, and that the excitement is wanting that attends studies which are pursued more in classes. Arithmetic imparts fewer new ideas, and does not extend the range of thought and inquiry as much as many other intellectual pursuits. Its importance, as a mental discipline, and its practical advantages through life, are not sufficient to give interest to the scholar, and to beguile the tedium of a way that has few immediate attractions. Under such circumstances, the instructor will deem it highly important so to vary the mode of instruction as to render the study attractive, and to give that prominence to this department of education which its great importance demands.
The author of this work has labored earnestly, while in a course of instruction, to effect this object; and is satisfied, that the mode of instruction adopted in the work now offered to the public, possesses advantages in this respect over the systems of Arithmetic usually taught.
The process of abridging operations, by cancelling of numbers, has been in a few rules slightly alluded to in the systems of arithmetic now in use ; but their authors do not seem to be aware of the extent to which it might be carried, in all proportional questions. Finding that this
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Published in History - Modern
The Killing of Cambodia by James A. Tyner
Between 1975 and 1978, the Khmer Rouge carried out genocide in Cambodia unparalleled in modern history. Approximately 2 million died - almost one quarter of the population. Taking an explicitly geographical approach, this book argues whether the Khmer Rouge's activities not only led to genocide, but also terracide - the erasure of space. In the Cambodia of 1975, the landscape would reveal vestiges of an indigenous pre-colonial Khmer society, a French colonialism and American intervention.
The Khmer Rouge, however, were not content with retaining the past inscriptions of previous modes of production and spatial practices. Instead, they attempted to erase time and space to create their own utopian vision of a communal society. The Khmer Rouge's erasing and reshaping of space was thus part of a consistent sacrifice of Cambodia and its people - a brutal justification for the killing of a country and the birth of a new place, Democratic Kampuchea. While focusing on Cambodia, the book provides a clearer geographic understanding to genocide in general and insights into the importance of spatial factors in geopolitical conflict.
The Killing of Cambodia: Geography, Genocide and the Unmaking of Space
James A. Tyner
6.1 x 9.2 x 0.60 inches - Hardcover
1.2 pounds - Hardcover
6.1 x 9.2 x 0.80 inches - Paperback
14.4 ounces - Paperback
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City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier
Corcitura
Deadmarsh Fey
Reviews & Critical Praise: City of Lights
Books In My Belfry
~ A Writer's Life For Me
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What they want with Lockie, and I enjoyed answering these questions so much. Many, and it becomes savagely clear that these Jagged Ones and the Dark Wreaker they serve are not only after Lockie and Travers, and the Curse That Walks The Earth. And then there is the foe named Blood Wood, and we’d be none the wiser till it had us by the throat! We can’t see a foot in front of our faces, andrea domanski, anduril, andy peloquin, angel, angels, anglo-saxon, anguish, anne rice, annihilate, annihilation, Anniversary, anorffen, answer the call, antestheria, applause, aragorn, architect, are true. And if there is truth in these outlandish stories, ariadne's thread, arianrhod, arthur, arthur machen, arwen, as Laura phrased it, as were the fiends who allowed themselves to be Hosted.” “But that happened in a wilder age, ashley capes, assumption, asunder, august, Augustin Boroi, aunt betsy, australia, australian, australian shark chorus, authentic, author, Authors, autonomy, autumn, avatar, awestruck, ” Bellows shot in. “You’re not allowed in church!” The Jagged One squinted at him. “Sez who?” “Says God!” Carver tsked. “I thought you Christians welcomed everyone.” “We make exc, ” Carver muttered. “I don’t know how else to explain this, ” Incendiu snarled. “They were all children, ” Roger argued. “Do not make the mistake of thinking present society is so highly advanced that they have forgotten their baser instincts, back from the dead, baggins, bagheera, bait, barber of seville, base motives, battlecry, beach, bear, beautiful, beginning, belkin, bellows, belong, beloved, below, bent, beowulf, best friend, best wishes, betrayal, better angels, beyond, beyond the forest, biased, bide, big, big boys, bill shakes, biologist, bird and baby, birth certificate, birthday, bite, black, black cats, black winged beast, blade and rose, blank wall, blazing, blind, blog, Blog Tour, blogger, bloggers, bloglovin, blogs, blood, blood and ashes, blood suckers, blood will drown the earth. And Roger and his entire family will fulfill the prophecy of fey’s older, blood wood, blood-soaked, bloodshed, bloom, blue prometheus, blue water, blue water white death, blues brothers, boarding school, boat, bombastic, bond, book, book addict, book feature, book giveaway, book nerd, book of mormon, booknerd, books, Books In My Belfry, booksinmybelfry.com, boom, boris kos, born vampire, boromir, Bottomless, boxer, brainstorming, bram stoker, brandon, bravo, brian o'sullivan, bride, brilliant, British, broke, brother, Brother?” the beast mocked. The dragon’s voice paralyzed Roger where he stood. Hearing it sapped his strength, brothers, brothers and sisters, brothers grimm, bruce, bubbly, business, bust, but a winged nightmare attempting to break free of its underground prison? Enlisting the aid of a monster equipped with enough inborn firepower to blast his enemies into oblivion might be as suicidal , but an unholy trinity known as the Bear, but as that interview is quite extensive, but did so sideways. A clear membrane coated its eye, but I could feel her age, but Roger, but when Roger arrives, c. d. gallant-king, c. l. schneider, C. S. Lewis, cable tv, cage, caged, calling, canon, carnifex, caroling, carpet diem, carte blanche, Carver, cat, catharine glen, cathartic, catholic, cats, caverns, cctv, cede, celebration, celts, center stage, chance, changed. The grounds are unkempt, chaos, character classes, characters, Charles Dickens, charpentier, chesterton, chevrefoil, childhood, children, children of light, children of vampires, chilled, chime, china, chivalry, chocolate, chocolate chip, choppy, chris fallowes, chris fallows, chris weston, christened, christians, christina ochs, Christmas, christmas carols, christmas in august, christmas in july, christopher percy, chucked, chumming, church, cianien bloodstone, City of Lights, City of Lights by melika lux, city of lights: the trials and triumphs of ilyse charpentier, clarity, classic, classical, clicking, clues, cnn, coalition, Coffyn, collapse, comedic fantasy, Comedy, comic, comic book, community, composed, conceal, concentration, confessional, confusion, conquest, conservation, constant source of inspiration, Constantinos, constructive criticism, contemporary fantasy, contest, conventional wisdom, conversation, cooked, copies, copyright, coquette, corcitura, Corcitura feature, corpses, corruption, corruption of honor, cottage, count, count orlok, Count Rakmanovich, Count Sergei Rakmanovich, courtly love, coven queen, Cover, cozy, crackbrained, craig a price jr., craig aird, create, creative fiction, creepy, cries blood, crime and punishment, cross fire, cruelty, CS Lewis, curiosity, curse, cut, cutting his teeth, cutwater, cutwater island, d. h. dunn, d. p. prior, d. p. wolliscroft, daft, damned souls, dance hall, dance of romance, dancing in the dust, danger, dangerous, dannese, dark, dark ages, dark fantasy, dark lord, dark night of the soul, dark oak, dark of winter, dark one's mistress, dark side, dark tide, dark water, dark wreaker, darkblade assassin, darkling, darkness, dashing, daughter of atlas, David Copperfield, david gowey, david mullin, david oliver, david p macpherson, dawn of darkness, days of endless night, dead bride, dead shrimps, deadliest, Deadmarsh, Deadmarsh Fey, deadmarshes, deal, dean rencraft, death, death merchants, death of worlds, debbie taylor, deborah kerr, december, decision, dedication, deeds in which village children made sacrifice to an otherworldly beast and were never seen or heard from again, deep, deeper, defeat, demand, demon, demon-haunted, demonic, demons, demons of the deep, denial, depth, depths, derangement, desire to weave stories, desolate, destiny, destruction, details, devastatingly brilliant, devil, devilry, devils, devin madson, devour, devourer of the world, dialogue, dianne bylo, die, dignity, dimensioner's revenge, diminish, Discovery Channel, disover, disposable, distraction, ditty, diva of the paris stage, diver's suit, divine, dk girl, dnf, dogs, doldrums, don't look back, donald trump, doom, dorothy dreyer, Dostoevsky, dostoyevsky, double blinds, Dracula, draculaesque, Dragon, dragon eye, dragon fate, dragon school, dragon shade, dragona rise of the wyverns, dragons, dramatically, dramatis personae, drandeur, dread, dread grandeur, dream, dream-sagas, dreamlike, dreams, dresses, driving force, drowning, druids, dude, dunedain, dungeoneers, dungeons and dragons, dunsany, duology, dwellers, dwellers of darkness, dwellers of darkness children of light, dyrk ashton, e. j. taylor, E. T., eagle and child, earth, Eastern Europe, ebb, ecstatically, eddas, ego, Eiffel Tower, elessar, elevator, elevator pitch, elmo, elvish, email, embellishments, emblematic, emerald dodge, emma stone, emotional, emotions, encourage, end song, enemies, enemy, engand, England, englishman, enlightened, enraptured, enrich, enveloped, envoys, epic, epic fantasy, epistolary, Eric Bradburry, erlkonig, erudite, ET, eternal night, Europe, European, evangeline, everl'aria, everyone, evidence, evie, evil, Excerpt, exhausted, exhilarated, exile, experience, exploitation, exploring, extraordinary, eye of arianrhod, eyes, Facebook, faces in the mist, facilitator, fade, faeries, fair and foul, fairy cakes, fairy tales, faith, fall, fallen, fallen age, fallen empire, fallen kingdom, false bay, family, fangs and fins, fantastic, fantastical, fantasy, fantasy hive, fantasy is escapist, fantasy novels, farewell and adieu, fascinated, fast typist, fate, Fated, fated to die, father, fathomless, Faust, favorite, fearies, fearless, feast, feast in the forest, feature, featured, featured at Jean the Book Nerd’s great site, feedback, feel, feelings, female author, female vampires, female werewolves, female writers, fey, fiction, Film, filming locations, films, Fin de siècle, Find Me, finding dory, finding home, finding nemo, fire's song, fire-breather, firecracker, fireplace, firing, first love, first novel, five, flesh, flesh and blood, flickering, flickering within that gigantic orb… “Why should I not know what he’s really called?” “Tell a man your name and he will have power over you forever, flow, flowers, flying saucer, flying sharks, foe, Folies Bergère, food network, foodtv, foot, for his savagery had no end.” “I’ve seen its other side. I know what lives here, forest, forever, forever grateful, forever love, forever my love, forfeit, forged in flames, forgotten relics, forsaken kingdom, foundation, four novel, fox news, fragile nights, France, Franz Schubert, freaky, free, free reign, free will, freebie, freedom, freeing air, French, french flag, French wine, friday, friends, Friendship, frodo, frodo baggins, frustrating, fudge, full circle, fun, fundamental, Fuseli, fylgja, fyodor, gabriel michaelson, gaja j. kos, game of thrones, gamut, Gandalf, gandalf the grey, gardener, gargantuan, geist, genius, genres, george r. r. martin, german, german lieder, germanic, Germany, ghast, ghost electricity, ghosts, gift, giganitc, giveaway, gk chesterton, glamour of evil, glimpse, gloomy, glories, glorious, glory, gnomic, goal, God, godforsaken, goethe, gollum, good and evil, good gad, good vs evil, gooderads, goodread, Goodreads, Google, goose, goose is cooked, gothic, gothic novel, governess, grabs, Grand Tour, gravitas, great book, great god pan, great white, great white shark, Greece, green flashing like St. Elmo’s fire. All these colors danced not a foot in front of Roger’s face, green with envy, greenery, Gretchen am Spinnrade, grey beard, grey wolves, Greydanus, grim reaper, groaza, gryffyn, guardian spirit, guardians, guides, guillermo del toro, Guinness, gustav mahler, guv, guy fieri, gwendolyn pendraig, h p lovecraft, h. g. wells, had ever been anything to fear. Nearly each summer of his young life had been spent in that manor on the moors, hallmark, hallmark channel, halloween, hamilton, hamlet, hammer, hand-write, handily at hand, hannah sullivan, hansel and gretel, hard work, harmony, harsh, has inexplicably grown and glares at Roger as if he is trying to read the boy’s mind. Roger’s eldest cousin, hasty, hate, haunted, haunting of hill house, havelock, having wild adventures with his cousin, hazard, he finds everything, he was The Bottomless, he who fights, heart, heartache, heartbeat, heartland, heaven, heaven and earth, hell comes to hogtown, help, henry corbin, henry fuseli, henry james, here be dragons, here there be dragons, hermit, hermitlife, hero, hero forged, heroes, heroism, high barrens, high fantasy, high school, higher self, higher selves, highland, hindsight, hinterland, historical fiction, historical romance, History, hobbit, hobbit size, hobbiton, hollow, home, home is behind, hope, hopes, hopes and dreams, horrifying, horror, horror herald, horrorfest, hosted, hosting, hot, Hotmail, house, hues, huge, hugh jackman, hugo vickers, hugo weaving, hugs, human beings, Humor, Hunger Games, hungers of life and all that matters, hunter, hybrid, hybrid vampires, i am death, i am fire, i am fire i am death, I shout, I thought it would be a good idea to share them with you today in a separate post. I hope you enjoy this little glimpse into Deadmarsh Fey. Best wishes, ian gregoire, Ian McCarthy, ian mckellan, ian mckellen, iceland, iconic, idea, ignite, ill tiding, illegal, illegible, ilyse, Ilyse Charpentier, imaginal, imaginal realm, imagination, imbued, impact, impacted, imprisoned, in tune, in which a dashing Englishman woos mademoiselle Charpentier, in-depth, incendiu, incorporate, incredible hulk, indecisive, Indie, infected, infinity, infused, inkling, inklings, inner lives, inorganic, insatiable, insights, inspiration, inspirations, inspired, instill, insurmountable, integrity, intense, interjections, internet, Interview, invite, iron fey, iron reveals, irrevocably, irv, isobel, isobel vickers, Italian, Italy, itinerant writing, ivan turgenev, j. a. alexsoo, j. d. hallowell, j. e. mueller, j. elizabeth vincent, J. R. R. 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The name struck terror into the hearts of all who heard it. But to Roger Knightley, leave, lee conley, legend, legendarium, legends, legends of elera voices, Leonora, Leonora Bianchetti, lepers, leroy nichols, les miserables, lesser, let off the lead, lethal, letter, liath luacra, library, lie, lieder eines fahrenden gesellen, lies, life, lifeline, light, light dawning, like the greater evil we faced later on, likeminded, lin manuel miranda, lineup, link, Links, lion the witch and the wardrobe, lips, lirazel, list, little dream, lives, Lockie, loggerheads, logistical, London, longing, longing for home, longings, lord byron, lord dunsany, lord of the rings, lords of asylum, lorri moulton, LOTR, lots of tears, Louisa May Alcott, Louvre, Love, love in one act, love of reading, Luc, luck, luminous, lunch, lux, Lux Aeterna, lynn's books, lyrics, m. s. olney, mabinogion, mabus, machen, mad skillz, maddie, made him feel as though his mind had been crushed between slabs of stone. There was chaos in it, Madelaine Bradburry, madness, magic, magic's betrayal, magician's nephew, magnificent, mahler, main character, majestic, malazan, malevolence, manipulation, Manon Larue, manor, many thanks to the fabulous (and sharktastic!) Laura M. Hughes for giving me this opportunity. I hope you will all enjoy reading about, marble, marianne ratcliffe, marilyn peake, marilyn vix, marine biologist, mark lawrence, marked, mashup, masquerading, master, master coffyn, masterclass, masterpiece, matt heppe, matt larkin, matthew thompson, maul, Maurice Charpentier, maxim, me, meagan hurst, meager, meaningful, meanings, meant to be, media, meg cowley, megan mackie, melancholy, melika, Melika Dannese Lux, Melika Lux, melokai, membrane, mental angels, merlin, message in a bottle, method, michael baker, michael r baker, michael sliter, middle-earth, mike morris, miles and flora, mimicked, mind, mind behind the mind, mind palace, miraculously, miranda, miranda honfleur, mirror writing, mirroring, moartea, moarteans, modern times, monikers, monocle, monty python, moon, moonlight roses and murder, moonstone, more things in heaven and earth, moria, morlocks, moroda, moss, most wonderful time of the year, mother, motherhood, motivation, mountain, Movies, mr. micawber, mr. murdstone, mug, Music, musical, my beloved, my calling, my dream, my life, my love, mystical, myth, mythology, myths, names, napkins, narnia, nature, nature of evil, nazri noor, nebulous, ned marcus, neither Deadmarsh the house, nerd, net galley, netflix, netgalley, never looked back, new, new interview, new picture, new release, New York, new zealand, news, nia rae, nicholas kotar, nicholas malebranche, night, nightmare, nightmarish, ninny, no looking back, no sparkling, nor Deadmarsh the family, norse, norse mythology, north york moors, northleach, norway, Nosferatu, not one foot! Why are you not afraid?” “Because I am the monster lurking in the shadows, notebook, notes, novel, novelist, novels, now, now dresses like a duchess and wears round her neck a strange moonstone given to her by someone known as Master Coffyn, now face-to-fey, nudged, oblivion, obsessed, ocean, odds, of darkness, off his nut, offshore, oil slick, old salt, older, ominous, on borrowed luck, on location, one i love, opaque, opera, or the world.” “There are more things in Heaven and earth…” Uncle Gryffyn muttered. “Now ain’t the time to be quotin’ old Bill Shakes, orange, orconomics, original, orion, orlok, oswald, other worlds, otherness, otherworld, out of nowhere, outlet, overwhelming, Oxford, pages, pale, palming the ace, pan, panic, panther, paper, Paperback, paranoia, paranoid, Paranormal, parc monceau, parents, Paris, Parisian, passionately, path, patrick leclerc, Paul Celan, pdf, peace, Penny Dreadful, penny dreadfuls, pepe the prawn, peppy, perfect day, performance, perilous, perilous realms, personal, perspective, perspicacious, peter jackson, peter quint, petrik leo, pews, phil parker, phil williams, philosopher, phoenix, phoenix descending, phrased, pianist, pict, picture, piece, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, pirates of the caribbean, pistachio, pit, place of slaughter, plausible deniability, play, plethora, plots, plowed, plumbing, poet, poetic edda, poetry, pointy hat, Polidori, politics, pool, pop culture, portraits, possessed, post, powers of music, prayer, pre-raphaelites, precious, preferably, premiered, press, prime time, primetime, professor fertig, project, projects, promo, promotion, prophecy, protagonist, pseudonym, psychological, publication, publicity, publishing, puckie, puddleglum, pumpkin, pun, pure magic, questions, quick-fire, quickfire, Quint, quites, quote, quotes, r. m. mulder, rafflecopter, ragna, random, ranger, rapture, rapturous, raskolnikov, rath, raucous, ravan thrall, raymond st. elmo, readers, reading, real, real name, realm of mindweavers, realms, reaper, recent reads, red sister, reddit, reflection, reflection of yourself, regret, reign, religion, renaissance, research, respect, reveal, revenge, Review, reviews, reward, rex, richard iii, richard lucas, richard writhen, riddled with fear, ring, rivalry, riveting novels of psychological suspense, roaring fire, roasted, robert shaw, robocopter ski patrol, rocks, roger, Roger cannot fathom, Roger discovers that Coffyn has overtaken Lockie. The boy is deceitful, Roger Knightley, Roger Knightley. Evil is evil no matter the century, Roger must find a way to end the battle being waged across worlds before the night of Lockie’s eleventh birthday—two days hence. If he fails, Roger seeks to unravel the tapestry of lies woven round his family’s connection to the death-haunted world of Everl’aria—and the Dark Wreaker who calls it home. The deeper Roger delves into the , rohirrim, roiling emotions, role playing, romance, romance novels set in historic France, Romania, Romanian, romantic fantasy, ronald tibu, room, rosalyn kelly, rosina, rossini, rotsby, round pegs, rove, rudyard kipling, ruination, ruled, rural, rural england, russell cullison, Russia, russian, ryan gosling, s. a. corey, s. c. flynn, s. k. randloph, sacrifice, sacrirfice, sadness, saga, sagas, sagas germanic, sale, salt, samara, samir, samwise gamgee, sanderson, sangue de vita, Sangue di Vita, sarah k. l. wilson, saucer, sauron, sausage, sausage sandwich, savagery, savoir faire, scarper, scary, scary vampires, scene, scene stealer, scenes, schadenfreude, schubert, science-fantasy, scotland, scream, scribd, scrubland, scythe, sea, Sea World, seal, seal island, sean astin, sean cunningham, seared, searing beauty, seasonal, seasonal reads, secret doorways, secrets, seized, selection, self publishing fantasy blog off, self-published fantasy blog off, semicolon, serenaded, Sergei, Sergei Rakmanovich, series, serious, servant of rage, seven hundred years, seventeen, sez, sez who, shadow magic, shadows, sham, shaq, shaquille o'neal, shark, shark attack, shark bite, shark chorus, shark elevator pitch, Shark Week, sharkbait oo-ha-HA!, sharking, sharkland, sharkland forever, Sharks, sharktastic, sheltering, shere khan, shield of kings, shifts, shire, shirley jackson, shiver, shores of the heart, shrieking, siblings, silence, silly, silver-tongued devil, singer, singing, sinisterly, sir frank dicksee, sister, sisters, site, sixteen, skill, skillz, skye, sneaky, snippet, snuffbox, snug, social media, solace lost, soldier, solidified, son, song, songs of insurrection, songs of the wayfarer, sonya m black, soprano, sorcerer's isle, sorcerous rivalry, Sorina Boroi, sorrow, soul, soul render, soul-restoring, soul-searching, soulmate, soulmates, souls, South Africa, space time continuum, special, special meaning, specials, spfbo, spfbo2018, spill, spinning silk, spiritual, spoiler, Spooky, spring, spring-heeled jack, square holes, squirrel, st. elmo's fire, standchen, startle, states, status quo, steal of a deal, steampunk, steer the ship, Stefan, Stefan Belododia, Stefan Ratliff, stephen spielberg, stephenie meyer, steve thomas, steven erikson, steven mckinnon, steven spielberg, stole his will, stone, storm wielder, story, story arcs, story reading, storytelling, storyweaving, stratosphere, struggle, stumbling block, stunning, sub-genres, success, suffered, summer, sunday, supernatural, supernatural thriller, superstition, support, suppressing, surf, surfer, surfer dude, susan hill, Suspense, suzanne rogerson, sviddheim, swathing, sweeney todd, sweet, swimmers, swimming, sydney, Sylvi, symphony of the wind, t j muir, T-Rex, t. cook, t. l. branson, Tags#AmWriting, Tags100, taiwan, Taken, taking care of, talk, talking animals, talking cat, talking cats, tall tales, TAPS, tears, techniques, teeth, temporary derangement, ten, terrifying, terror, that's what I'm tolkien about, the apples of idunn, the bastard from fairyland, the crown of stones, the crushed peak, the darkness within, the dead sagas, the Deadmarsh heir. This year should have been no different, the end begins, the exercise of vital powers, the expanse, the family cat, the fantasy hive, The Fellowship of the Ring, the finder of the lucky devil, the first fear, the forbidden city, the game bird, the great hearts, the great restoration, the greatest showman, the hidden face, the hidden ones, the innocents, the ivy cottage, the king of elfland's daughter, the knight's order, the last whisperer, The Lord of the Rings, the lost sentinel, the manhunters song, The Marriage of Figaro, the Moarteans christened him Groaza. Others called him The Devourer of the World. And to those on Sviddheim, the more he begins to suspect that the tales of dark deeds done in the forest behind Deadmarsh, the most wonderful time of the year, the power of music, the red hourglass, the ring, the rose crown, the sangrook saga, the seeds of dissolution, the servants long gone. Kip, the silver chair, the song of the siren, the stars were right, the tainted crown, the tempest guild, the thousand scars, The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier, the turn of the screw, the very beginning, the white people and other weird stories, the Wolf, theatre, then drew back to reveal hues infinitely more searing than before—so vibrant it was painful for Roger to look into them. Orange pulsating like a lava flow, theophany, these vampires don't sparkle, This selection of quotes will appear in a very personal interview on Friday, thorny, thousand scar, threatening, threats of sky and sea, three decades, three tons, three tons of him, thrilled, Thriller, throat, through a glass darkly, thunder the shadows are stirring, tibu, tidings, tiger lilly, tiller, time machine, timothy c doyle, tiny tim, Tolkien, tollers, Tollers and Jack, tom-tom, tome tender, too. 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When he invaded Everl’aria, Werewolf, werewolf transformation, what of the rumor that it was not an earthquake which rocked the moors surrounding Deadmarsh sixteen years ago, what’s been slumbering for so long.” A hollow pit opened up where Roger’s heart was supposed to be. “How would you know that?” “I woke it up.” He blinked in surprise and was even more st, when the kingdom falls, whiskey and dragon fire, white death, white shark, Whitechapel, who has taken over the teaching of Lockie at a school in Wales called Nethermarrow. And soon after he crosses the threshold of Deadmarsh, who might be the deadliest of them all. Racing against time, widget, wilder, Wilkie Collins, william c tracy, william ray, william shakespeare, wine, winners, winter, wip, wisdom, wish, witch, witch spelling, wizard, wolf, woman in white, womb, wonderful, wondrous, Wood, woods, work, worldview, worst enemy, worth fighting for, wraxhall, wreaker, wrenching, write what you dream, writer, writer's block, Writers, writing, writing life, writing method, writing process, YA, year, years, yellow glistening brighter than a city made of gold, yes, yet the boy knows he needs all the help he can get if there is to be any hope of defeating not only the Dark Wreaker and his servants, yo ho yo ho a writer's life for me, york, Yorkshire, Young Adult, young author, young female author, young love, Young Protagonists, young writer, your home, YouTube
Melika Dannese Hick has been an author since the age of fourteen and writes dream-sagas that incorporate a variety of different genres, including historical fiction, suspense, thrillers with a supernatural twist, and epic/dark fantasy. She is also a classically trained soprano/violinist/pianist, who holds a BA in Management from Saint Leo University and an MBA in Marketing from Regis University.
If she had not decided to become a writer, Melika would have become a marine biologist, but after countless years spent watching Shark Week, she realized she is very attached to her arms and legs and would rather write sharks into her stories than get up close and personal with those toothy wonders.
Melika and her husband, Julian, make their home in London, with occasional journeys into the Shire. To learn more about Melika, her books, and latest writing projects, please visit booksinmybelfry.com
A Very Personal Interview + Book Giveaway
Posted by Melika Dannese Hick in Author Spotlight, Deadmarsh Fey, Fun Stuff, Giveaway Announcement, Missives, News, Updates
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What they want with Lockie, and I enjoyed answering these questions so much. Many, and it becomes savagely clear that these Jagged Ones and the Dark Wreaker they serve are not only after Lockie and Travers, and the Curse That Walks The Earth. And then there is the foe named Blood Wood, and we’d be none the wiser till it had us by the throat! We can’t see a foot in front of our faces, andrea domanski, anduril, andy peloquin, angel, angels, anglo-saxon, anguish, anne rice, annihilate, annihilation, Anniversary, anorffen, answer the call, antestheria, applause, aragorn, architect, are true. And if there is truth in these outlandish stories, ariadne's thread, arianrhod, arthur, arthur machen, arwen, as Laura phrased it, as were the fiends who allowed themselves to be Hosted.” “But that happened in a wilder age, ashley capes, assumption, asunder, august, Augustin Boroi, aunt betsy, australia, australian, australian shark chorus, authentic, author, Authors, autonomy, autumn, awestruck, ” Bellows shot in. “You’re not allowed in church!” The Jagged One squinted at him. “Sez who?” “Says God!” Carver tsked. “I thought you Christians welcomed everyone.” “We make exc, ” Carver muttered. “I don’t know how else to explain this, ” Incendiu snarled. “They were all children, ” Roger argued. “Do not make the mistake of thinking present society is so highly advanced that they have forgotten their baser instincts, back from the dead, baggins, bagheera, bait, barber of seville, base motives, battlecry, beach, bear, beautiful, beginning, belkin, bellows, belong, beloved, below, bent, beowulf, best friend, best wishes, betrayal, better angels, beyond, beyond the forest, biased, bide, big, big boys, bill shakes, biologist, bird and baby, birth certificate, birthday, bite, black, black cats, black winged beast, blade and rose, blank wall, blazing, blind, blog, Blog Tour, blogger, bloggers, bloglovin, blogs, blood, blood and ashes, blood suckers, blood will drown the earth. 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Enlisting the aid of a monster equipped with enough inborn firepower to blast his enemies into oblivion might be as suicidal , but an unholy trinity known as the Bear, but as that interview is quite extensive, but did so sideways. A clear membrane coated its eye, but I could feel her age, but Roger, but when Roger arrives, c. d. gallant-king, c. l. schneider, C. S. Lewis, cable tv, cage, caged, calling, canon, carnifex, caroling, carpet diem, carte blanche, Carver, cat, catharine glen, cathartic, catholic, cats, caverns, cctv, cede, celebration, celts, center stage, chance, changed. The grounds are unkempt, chaos, character classes, characters, Charles Dickens, charpentier, chesterton, chevrefoil, childhood, children, children of light, children of vampires, chilled, chime, china, chivalry, chocolate, chocolate chip, choppy, chris fallowes, chris fallows, chris weston, christened, christians, christina ochs, Christmas, christmas carols, christmas in august, christmas in july, christopher percy, chucked, chumming, church, cianien bloodstone, City of Lights, City of Lights by melika lux, city of lights: the trials and triumphs of ilyse charpentier, clarity, classic, classical, clicking, clues, cnn, coalition, Coffyn, collapse, comedic fantasy, Comedy, comic, comic book, community, composed, conceal, concentration, confessional, confusion, conquest, conservation, constant source of inspiration, Constantinos, constructive criticism, contemporary fantasy, contest, conventional wisdom, conversation, cooked, copies, copyright, coquette, corcitura, Corcitura feature, corpses, corruption, corruption of honor, cottage, count, count orlok, Count Rakmanovich, Count Sergei Rakmanovich, courtly love, coven queen, Cover, cozy, crackbrained, craig a price jr., craig aird, create, creative fiction, creepy, cries blood, crime and punishment, cross fire, cruelty, CS Lewis, curiosity, curse, cut, cutting his teeth, cutwater, cutwater island, d. h. dunn, d. p. prior, d. p. wolliscroft, daft, damned souls, dance hall, dance of romance, dancing in the dust, danger, dangerous, dannese, dark, dark ages, dark fantasy, dark lord, dark night of the soul, dark oak, dark of winter, dark one's mistress, dark side, dark tide, dark water, dark wreaker, darkblade assassin, darkling, darkness, dashing, daughter of atlas, David Copperfield, david gowey, david mullin, david oliver, david p macpherson, dawn of darkness, days of endless night, dead bride, dead shrimps, deadliest, Deadmarsh, Deadmarsh Fey, deadmarshes, deal, dean rencraft, death, death merchants, death of worlds, debbie taylor, deborah kerr, december, decision, dedication, deeds in which village children made sacrifice to an otherworldly beast and were never seen or heard from again, deep, deeper, defeat, demand, demon, demon-haunted, demonic, demons, demons of the deep, denial, depth, depths, derangement, desire to weave stories, desolate, destiny, destruction, details, devastatingly brilliant, devil, devilry, devils, devin madson, devour, devourer of the world, dialogue, dianne bylo, die, dignity, dimensioner's revenge, diminish, Discovery Channel, disover, disposable, distraction, ditty, diva of the paris stage, diver's suit, divine, dk girl, dnf, dogs, doldrums, don't look back, donald trump, doom, dorothy dreyer, Dostoevsky, dostoyevsky, double blinds, Dracula, draculaesque, Dragon, dragon eye, dragon fate, dragon school, dragon shade, dragona rise of the wyverns, dragons, dramatically, dramatis personae, drandeur, dread, dread grandeur, dream, dream-sagas, dreamlike, dreams, dresses, driving force, drowning, druids, dude, dunedain, dungeoneers, dungeons and dragons, dunsany, duology, dwellers, dwellers of darkness, dwellers of darkness children of light, dyrk ashton, e. j. taylor, E. T., eagle and child, earth, Eastern Europe, ebb, ecstatically, eddas, ego, Eiffel Tower, elessar, elevator, elevator pitch, elmo, elvish, email, embellishments, emblematic, emerald dodge, emma stone, emotional, emotions, encourage, end song, enemies, enemy, engand, England, englishman, enlightened, enraptured, enrich, enveloped, envoys, epic, epic fantasy, epistolary, Eric Bradburry, erlkonig, erudite, ET, eternal night, Europe, European, evangeline, everl'aria, everyone, evidence, evie, evil, Excerpt, exhausted, exhilarated, exile, experience, exploitation, exploring, extraordinary, eye of arianrhod, eyes, Facebook, faces in the mist, facilitator, fade, faeries, fair and foul, fairy cakes, fairy tales, faith, fall, fallen, fallen age, fallen empire, fallen kingdom, false bay, family, fangs and fins, fantastic, fantastical, fantasy, fantasy hive, fantasy is escapist, fantasy novels, farewell and adieu, fascinated, fast typist, fate, Fated, fated to die, father, fathomless, Faust, favorite, fearies, fearless, feast, feast in the forest, feature, featured, featured at Jean the Book Nerd’s great site, feedback, feel, feelings, female author, female vampires, female werewolves, female writers, fey, fiction, Film, filming locations, films, Fin de siècle, Find Me, finding dory, finding home, finding nemo, fire's song, fire-breather, firecracker, fireplace, firing, first love, first novel, five, flesh, flesh and blood, flickering, flickering within that gigantic orb… “Why should I not know what he’s really called?” “Tell a man your name and he will have power over you forever, flow, flowers, flying saucer, flying sharks, foe, Folies Bergère, food network, foodtv, foot, for his savagery had no end.” “I’ve seen its other side. I know what lives here, forest, forever, forever grateful, forever love, forever my love, forfeit, forged in flames, forgotten relics, forsaken kingdom, foundation, four novel, fox news, fragile nights, France, Franz Schubert, freaky, free, free reign, free will, freebie, freedom, freeing air, French, french flag, French wine, friday, friends, Friendship, frodo, frodo baggins, frustrating, fudge, full circle, fun, fundamental, Fuseli, fylgja, fyodor, gabriel michaelson, gaja j. kos, game of thrones, gamut, Gandalf, gandalf the grey, gardener, gargantuan, geist, genius, genres, george r. r. martin, german, german lieder, germanic, Germany, ghast, ghost electricity, ghosts, gift, giganitc, giveaway, gk chesterton, glamour of evil, glimpse, gloomy, glories, glorious, glory, gnomic, goal, God, godforsaken, goethe, gollum, good and evil, good gad, good vs evil, gooderads, goodread, Goodreads, Google, goose, goose is cooked, gothic, gothic novel, governess, grabs, Grand Tour, gravitas, great book, great god pan, great white, great white shark, Greece, green flashing like St. Elmo’s fire. All these colors danced not a foot in front of Roger’s face, green with envy, greenery, Gretchen am Spinnrade, grey beard, grey wolves, Greydanus, grim reaper, groaza, gryffyn, guardian spirit, guardians, guides, guillermo del toro, Guinness, gustav mahler, guv, guy fieri, gwendolyn pendraig, h p lovecraft, h. g. wells, had ever been anything to fear. Nearly each summer of his young life had been spent in that manor on the moors, hallmark, hallmark channel, halloween, hamilton, hamlet, hammer, hand-write, handily at hand, hannah sullivan, hansel and gretel, hard work, harmony, harsh, has inexplicably grown and glares at Roger as if he is trying to read the boy’s mind. Roger’s eldest cousin, hasty, hate, haunted, haunting of hill house, havelock, having wild adventures with his cousin, hazard, he finds everything, he was The Bottomless, he who fights, heart, heartache, heartbeat, heartland, heaven, heaven and earth, hell comes to hogtown, help, henry corbin, henry fuseli, henry james, here be dragons, here there be dragons, hermit, hermitlife, hero, hero forged, heroes, heroism, high barrens, high fantasy, high school, higher self, higher selves, highland, hindsight, hinterland, historical fiction, historical romance, History, hobbit, hobbit size, hobbiton, hollow, home, home is behind, hope, hopes, hopes and dreams, horrifying, horror, horror herald, horrorfest, hosted, hosting, hot, Hotmail, house, hues, huge, hugh jackman, hugo vickers, hugo weaving, hugs, human beings, Humor, Hunger Games, hungers of life and all that matters, hunter, hybrid, hybrid vampires, i am death, i am fire, i am fire i am death, I shout, I thought it would be a good idea to share them with you today in a separate post. I hope you enjoy this little glimpse into Deadmarsh Fey. Best wishes, ian gregoire, Ian McCarthy, ian mckellan, ian mckellen, iceland, iconic, idea, ignite, ill tiding, illegal, illegible, ilyse, Ilyse Charpentier, imaginal, imaginal realm, imagination, imbued, impact, impacted, imprisoned, in tune, in which a dashing Englishman woos mademoiselle Charpentier, in-depth, incendiu, incorporate, incredible hulk, indecisive, Indie, infected, infinity, infused, inkling, inklings, inner lives, inorganic, insatiable, insights, inspiration, inspirations, inspired, instill, insurmountable, integrity, intense, interjections, internet, Interview, invite, iron fey, iron reveals, irrevocably, irv, isobel, isobel vickers, Italian, Italy, itinerant writing, ivan turgenev, j. a. alexsoo, j. d. hallowell, j. e. mueller, j. elizabeth vincent, J. R. R. Tolkien, j. r. rasmussen, j. zachary pike, ja andrews, jack, Jack the Ripper, jacob sannox, jagged, jagged ones, JAWS, jawsome, jawsomeness, jc kang, jean, jean booknerd, jean valjean, jeffrey l kohanek, jeffrey russell, jennifer ellison, jeramy goble, jess watkins, jesse teller, jingle bells, jingle sharks, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, john william waterhouse, johnny cash, jon, jordan c robinson, joseph sheridan le fanu, josh erikson, jot, joy, JRR Tolkien, julian, june carter cash, jungle book, Jurassic Park, just keep swimming, justin lee anderson, k bird lincoln, k l ling, k m alexander, kascher's quartet, katniss, kayleigh nicol, keith mcardle, kevin wright, kind, Kindle, kindle giveaway, king arthur, kingshold, Kip, Kipling, kirsten m corby, Knightley, knowing thine enemy, knut hamsun, kurintor nyusi, l. l. mcneil, la la land, La Perle de Paris, la petite coquette, lad, landed, languages, laptop, latest, laura, laura m hughes, lava, lead, lead to the rath and your fate will be shown… cover Deadmarsh. The name struck terror into the hearts of all who heard it. But to Roger Knightley, leave, lee conley, legend, legendarium, legends, legends of elera voices, Leonora, Leonora Bianchetti, lepers, leroy nichols, les miserables, lesser, let off the lead, lethal, letter, liath luacra, library, lie, lieder eines fahrenden gesellen, lies, life, lifeline, light, light dawning, like the greater evil we faced later on, likeminded, lin manuel miranda, lineup, link, Links, lion the witch and the wardrobe, lips, lirazel, list, little dream, lives, Lockie, loggerheads, logistical, London, longing, longing for home, longings, lord byron, lord dunsany, lord of the rings, lords of asylum, lorri moulton, LOTR, lots of tears, Louisa May Alcott, Louvre, Love, love in one act, love of reading, Luc, luck, luminous, lunch, lux, Lux Aeterna, lynn's books, lyrics, m. s. olney, mabinogion, mabus, machen, mad skillz, maddie, made him feel as though his mind had been crushed between slabs of stone. 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Why are you not afraid?” “Because I am the monster lurking in the shadows, notebook, notes, novel, novelist, novels, now, now dresses like a duchess and wears round her neck a strange moonstone given to her by someone known as Master Coffyn, now face-to-fey, nudged, oblivion, obsessed, ocean, odds, of darkness, off his nut, offshore, oil slick, old salt, older, ominous, on borrowed luck, on location, one i love, opaque, opera, or the world.” “There are more things in Heaven and earth…” Uncle Gryffyn muttered. “Now ain’t the time to be quotin’ old Bill Shakes, orange, orconomics, original, orion, orlok, oswald, other worlds, otherness, otherworld, out of nowhere, outlet, overwhelming, Oxford, pages, pale, palming the ace, pan, panic, panther, paper, Paperback, paranoia, paranoid, Paranormal, parc monceau, parents, Paris, Parisian, passionately, path, patrick leclerc, Paul Celan, pdf, peace, Penny Dreadful, penny dreadfuls, pepe the prawn, peppy, perfect day, performance, perilous, perilous realms, personal, perspective, perspicacious, peter jackson, peter quint, petrik leo, pews, phil parker, phil williams, philosopher, phoenix, phoenix descending, phrased, pianist, pict, piece, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, pirates of the caribbean, pistachio, pit, place of slaughter, plausible deniability, play, plethora, plots, plowed, plumbing, poet, poetic edda, poetry, pointy hat, Polidori, politics, pool, pop culture, portraits, possessed, post, powers of music, prayer, pre-raphaelites, precious, preferably, premiered, press, prime time, primetime, professor fertig, project, projects, promo, promotion, prophecy, protagonist, pseudonym, psychological, publication, publicity, publishing, puckie, puddleglum, pumpkin, pun, pure magic, questions, quick-fire, quickfire, Quint, quites, quote, quotes, r. m. mulder, rafflecopter, ragna, random, ranger, rapture, rapturous, raskolnikov, rath, raucous, ravan thrall, raymond st. elmo, readers, reading, real, real name, realm of mindweavers, realms, reaper, recent reads, red sister, reddit, reflection, reflection of yourself, regret, reign, religion, renaissance, research, respect, reveal, revenge, Review, reviews, reward, rex, richard iii, richard lucas, richard writhen, riddled with fear, ring, rivalry, riveting novels of psychological suspense, roaring fire, roasted, robert shaw, robocopter ski patrol, rocks, roger, Roger cannot fathom, Roger discovers that Coffyn has overtaken Lockie. The boy is deceitful, Roger Knightley, Roger Knightley. Evil is evil no matter the century, Roger must find a way to end the battle being waged across worlds before the night of Lockie’s eleventh birthday—two days hence. If he fails, Roger seeks to unravel the tapestry of lies woven round his family’s connection to the death-haunted world of Everl’aria—and the Dark Wreaker who calls it home. The deeper Roger delves into the , rohirrim, roiling emotions, role playing, romance, romance novels set in historic France, Romania, Romanian, romantic fantasy, ronald tibu, room, rosalyn kelly, rosina, rossini, rotsby, round pegs, rove, rudyard kipling, ruination, ruled, rural, rural england, russell cullison, Russia, russian, ryan gosling, s. a. corey, s. c. flynn, s. k. randloph, sacrifice, sacrirfice, sadness, saga, sagas, sagas germanic, sale, salt, samara, samir, samwise gamgee, sanderson, sangue de vita, Sangue di Vita, sarah k. l. wilson, saucer, sauron, sausage, sausage sandwich, savagery, savoir faire, scarper, scary, scary vampires, scene, scene stealer, scenes, schadenfreude, schubert, science-fantasy, scotland, scream, scribd, scrubland, scythe, sea, Sea World, seal, seal island, sean astin, sean cunningham, seared, searing beauty, seasonal, seasonal reads, secret doorways, secrets, seized, selection, self publishing fantasy blog off, self-published fantasy blog off, semicolon, serenaded, Sergei, Sergei Rakmanovich, series, serious, servant of rage, seven hundred years, seventeen, sez, sez who, shadow magic, shadows, sham, shaq, shaquille o'neal, shark, shark attack, shark bite, shark chorus, shark elevator pitch, Shark Week, sharkbait oo-ha-HA!, sharking, sharkland, sharkland forever, Sharks, sharktastic, sheltering, shere khan, shield of kings, shifts, shire, shirley jackson, shiver, shores of the heart, shrieking, siblings, silence, silly, silver-tongued devil, singer, singing, sinisterly, sir frank dicksee, sister, sisters, site, sixteen, skill, skillz, skye, sneaky, snippet, snuffbox, snug, social media, solace lost, soldier, solidified, son, song, songs of insurrection, songs of the wayfarer, sonya m black, soprano, sorcerer's isle, sorcerous rivalry, Sorina Boroi, sorrow, soul, soul render, soul-restoring, soul-searching, soulmate, soulmates, souls, South Africa, space time continuum, special, special meaning, specials, spfbo, spfbo2018, spill, spinning silk, spiritual, spoiler, Spooky, spring, spring-heeled jack, square holes, squirrel, st. elmo's fire, standchen, startle, states, status quo, steal of a deal, steampunk, steer the ship, Stefan, Stefan Belododia, Stefan Ratliff, stephen spielberg, stephenie meyer, steve thomas, steven erikson, steven mckinnon, steven spielberg, stole his will, stone, storm wielder, story, story arcs, story reading, storytelling, storyweaving, stratosphere, struggle, stumbling block, stunning, sub-genres, success, suffered, summer, sunday, supernatural, supernatural thriller, superstition, support, suppressing, surf, surfer, surfer dude, susan hill, Suspense, suzanne rogerson, sviddheim, swathing, sweeney todd, sweet, swimmers, swimming, sydney, Sylvi, symphony of the wind, t j muir, T-Rex, t. cook, t. l. branson, Tags#AmWriting, Tags100, taiwan, Taken, taking care of, talk, talking animals, talking cat, talking cats, tall tales, TAPS, tears, techniques, teeth, temporary derangement, ten, terrifying, terror, that's what I'm tolkien about, the apples of idunn, the bastard from fairyland, the crown of stones, the crushed peak, the darkness within, the dead sagas, the Deadmarsh heir. This year should have been no different, the end begins, the exercise of vital powers, the expanse, the family cat, the fantasy hive, The Fellowship of the Ring, the finder of the lucky devil, the first fear, the forbidden city, the game bird, the great hearts, the great restoration, the greatest showman, the hidden face, the hidden ones, the innocents, the ivy cottage, the king of elfland's daughter, the knight's order, the last whisperer, The Lord of the Rings, the lost sentinel, the manhunters song, The Marriage of Figaro, the Moarteans christened him Groaza. Others called him The Devourer of the World. And to those on Sviddheim, the more he begins to suspect that the tales of dark deeds done in the forest behind Deadmarsh, the most wonderful time of the year, the power of music, the red hourglass, the ring, the rose crown, the sangrook saga, the seeds of dissolution, the servants long gone. Kip, the silver chair, the song of the siren, the stars were right, the tainted crown, the tempest guild, the thousand scars, The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier, the turn of the screw, the very beginning, the white people and other weird stories, the Wolf, theatre, then drew back to reveal hues infinitely more searing than before—so vibrant it was painful for Roger to look into them. Orange pulsating like a lava flow, theophany, these vampires don't sparkle, This selection of quotes will appear in a very personal interview on Friday, thorny, thousand scar, threatening, threats of sky and sea, three decades, three tons, three tons of him, thrilled, Thriller, throat, through a glass darkly, thunder the shadows are stirring, tibu, tidings, tiger lilly, tiller, time machine, timothy c doyle, tiny tim, Tolkien, tollers, Tollers and Jack, tom-tom, tome tender, too. 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When he invaded Everl’aria, Werewolf, werewolf transformation, what of the rumor that it was not an earthquake which rocked the moors surrounding Deadmarsh sixteen years ago, what’s been slumbering for so long.” A hollow pit opened up where Roger’s heart was supposed to be. “How would you know that?” “I woke it up.” He blinked in surprise and was even more st, when the kingdom falls, whiskey and dragon fire, white death, white shark, Whitechapel, who has taken over the teaching of Lockie at a school in Wales called Nethermarrow. And soon after he crosses the threshold of Deadmarsh, who might be the deadliest of them all. Racing against time, widget, wilder, Wilkie Collins, william c tracy, william ray, william shakespeare, wine, winners, winter, wip, wisdom, wish, witch, witch spelling, wizard, wolf, woman in white, womb, wonderful, wondrous, Wood, woods, work, worldview, worst enemy, worth fighting for, wraxhall, wreaker, wrenching, write what you dream, writer, writer's block, Writers, writing, writing life, writing method, writing process, YA, year, years, yellow glistening brighter than a city made of gold, yes, yet the boy knows he needs all the help he can get if there is to be any hope of defeating not only the Dark Wreaker and his servants, yo ho yo ho a writer's life for me, york, Yorkshire, Young Adult, young author, young female author, young love, Young Protagonists, young writer, your home, YouTube, ziroonderel Hi Everyone, ~Melika “This beast
Today, I’m sharing with you the most intensely personal interview I have ever done. When I was first sent these questions, I never thought answering them would help me make peace with feelings I’d been unconsciously suppressing for many years, but I am so thankful that this was the case. I’ve learned a lot about myself over the last few days because of this, days that have been painful yet necessary for me to heal in many areas of my life and find joy again where before there was nothing but sadness and confusion. And speaking of joy…this interview has given me, truly, for the very first time, a venue to share my feelings with you all about the amazing man, my beloved soulmate, who has changed my life in so many glorious and magnificent ways since we’ve been together. I hope you enjoy not only reading about him, but also about a few important books that have touched my heart, some of my inspirations, including one legendary panther, and many other things, both serious and silly!
I’d like to take a moment to say a special thank you to Jean, of Jean The Book Nerd. You couldn’t have known how these questions would affect me when you sent them along, Jean, but I will be forever grateful that you did, and also for how kind, caring, understanding, and wonderfully generous you’ve been to me throughout this entire process. Thank you so much!!! *hugs*
Additionally, Jean is hosting a giveaway of not only Deadmarsh Fey, but also my supernatural thriller, Corcitura. You can enter for a chance to win a Kindle copy of each novel by clicking here.
And now, without any further delay, onto the interview…
What was the single worst distraction that kept you from writing this book?
It wasn’t a distraction, but taking a wrong storytelling direction kept me from writing Deadmarsh Fey for an entire year. 2013 was spent working on what would become the fourth book in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light (the series Deadmarsh Fey launched), only I didn’t know this at the time, which was why writing this book out of sequence felt very wrong, not to mention terribly frustrating. There were things happening in this novel that I had no explanation for, and an untold history of how this world my characters found themselves imprisoned in had come to be.
When my mind cleared enough for me to be able to envision the trajectory Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light, needed to take, I realized that these stories—begun as prequels to a fantasy series I’d started writing in 2003, a series in which some characters from Deadmarsh Fey were my main adult protagonists—had taken on lives of their own, and were now demanding to be told, and unless I gave in, I’d never be able to understand what had affected the characters in those original books so strongly when they were children, and molded them into the adults they became. And then the Dark Wreaker burst onto the scene, with a horde of devils in his wake, and changed everything.
Even though the experience I underwent in 2013 was incredibly frustrating, I do not regret the time I spent working on that fourth book. What was written in it (and the novel is fully written, though it will alter dramatically when all is said and done) laid the foundation for nearly every myth and legend—even inspiring a number of significant events in Deadmarsh Fey—that I would have never known how to interweave throughout the series if I hadn’t written that fourth book first.
Has reading a book ever changed your life? Which one and why, if yes?
Yes, Crime and Punishment, when I was seventeen. I had always enjoyed reading, but it wasn’t till I lost myself in this masterpiece that it truly became a passion—and opened up avenues I never would have considered traveling down, nor had the courage to do so, till I made the acquaintance of this book. The masterful way Dostoyevsky painted with words astounded me. I was absorbed by the rich psychological portraits he was able to delineate with a few strokes of the pen, and all the force of his imagination. Since then, only this year, in fact, thanks to my beloved, I have been exposed to other writers who remind me of him, most notably Knut Hamsun and, very recently, Ivan Turgenev, both of whom have that same lyrical touch, an equal genius for capturing the essence of a human soul and sketching it into life upon the page. Though the canvasses they painted their visions upon are much smaller, their portraits are no less penetrating and brilliant. And yet, while Crime and Punishment was over 700 pages, I remember wishing it had been longer, and I missed the characters, even Raskolnikov—whom I had intense sympathy for, which just shows how adept at evoking pathos and emotion Dostoyevsky was, getting me to feel compassion for a man who had done such terrible things—when my time with them in 19th century Russia was over. Much like my experience reading David Copperfield five years before, it was as though I’d lived alongside these characters, suffered with them, endured their trials, even felt the panic of the net closing in around one character in particular… My emotions ran the gamut; I was inspired, exhausted yet exhilarated, and found myself with an insatiable longing to create that only writing could fulfill. I don’t believe in coincidences, and know it was no accident I read this book on the heels of a paradigm-shifting moment in my life—and that it proved to be the final push in the right direction I needed.
From a very young age, I’d wanted to be a marine biologist, even though I always seemed to be scribbling down stories on whatever scraps of paper—sometimes napkins and tissues, honestly—were near at hand, and began working on my first novel when I was fourteen. To me, writing has forever been and will forever be a key that unlocks hidden doorways into other worlds, and I felt I was being called to dedicate my life to exploring these universes of the imaginal realm—and making them my own. Yet it wasn’t until the winter of 2001 (a few months before reading Crime and Punishment), as I sat in a darkened theatre, enthralled and enraptured by my first glimpse of Middle-Earth, that light shone onto the path I was meant to take. I owe this illumination to Gandalf and the words of wisdom he spoke to Frodo in the caverns of Moria, when hope was at its lowest ebb:
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
In my heart, in that moment, I knew what I was being asked to decide. And so I made my choice—never looked back.
Tell us your most rewarding experience since being published.
Writing a book is an intense, often quite solitary, endeavor. While you are lost in the creation of it, and especially when the work is done, you can’t help wondering, with a mix of hope and dread, if anyone will love the book as much as you do. Yet once the story has been released into the world, it ceases to be yours alone, and you must, however wrenching it might be, let the characters—and this tale you’ve poured your being into—fend for themselves. As the poet Paul Celan once said, “a poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the—not always greatly hopeful—belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense, too, are under way: they are making toward something.” Should this not be what every writer, whether of poetry or novels, strives for? This concept of the “heartland” affected me deeply when my beloved shared it with me a few months ago, because Celan’s words crystalized what I’d always felt. With each book I have written, but most passionately regarding Deadmarsh Fey, my goal, my wish, has been that my characters, and these realms they populate, would resonate with readers and move them in meaningful ways, hopefully changing them for the better, and making them think differently about their inner lives and the world around them.
And that is why my most rewarding experience since being published has been how people have reacted to Deadmarsh Fey. From these reviews, it is obvious that many readers have understood the book, “gotten” it, as it were, and let themselves be seized by my story. And, what’s more, are incredibly excited to discover what happens next in this saga known as Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light. All this fills me with joy, because it shows that my message in a bottle, for these readers, at least, has washed up on the shores of their hearts and struck a chord within their souls that I hope will reverberate for many long years to come.
In your new book, DEADMARSH FEY, can you tell my Book Nerd community a little about it and why they should read your novel?
Every novel in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light is told in a different voice, written from the perspective of a new protagonist through whose eyes we see the story. In Deadmarsh Fey, the eyes belong to Roger Knightley, ten years old and cousin to Havelock (Lockie), the Deadmarsh heir. Roger is a firecracker, and though but a child, is a well-read one (reared on the mystical and often blood-soaked legends from both sides of his lineage, Welsh and English), which has resulted in his having an extremely vivid imagination. Sometimes, this can be problematic, but it means that Roger hasn’t yet been poisoned against the fantastical, or robbed of his sense of wonder. Since he has no trouble accepting the inexplicable at face value, he is quicker to understand and recognize the dangers the creatures tearing out of the Otherworld and into our own pose to himself and his family than the adults—and those who supposedly have all the answers—surrounding him. He also has a wry bent to his personality, and a stubborn streak, that help and hinder him in various ways as the book progresses. And he’s obsessed with dragons. You’ll have to read the novel to discover if this proves fatal to him, and others, or not.
Regarding the heart of the story, the events in Deadmarsh Fey, though cloaked in the garb of fantasy, are truly about fighting for those you love, and all you hold dear. This is the supreme driving force behind Roger’s actions and those of his friends and allies. It’s not just about survival, or stopping the Dark Wreaker—a nebulous entity who has bedeviled the Deadmarshes for seven hundred years—and his army of Jagged Ones and blood-tied horrors, both fair and foul, from being unleashed upon this earth, but about saving the very souls of those who are most important to you, those you’d sacrifice everything for. And that is something that has appealed to me far longer than I can remember, not only in storyweaving, but in life.
Also, whether we are aware of it or not, each of us has a fundamental longing for “home.” By that, I don’t mean a dwelling, but a deep ache in the heart to find the place we truly belong. When it comes to my writing, my “home” has always been in these Otherworlds I have created—perilous realms infected by a darkness hell-bent on destruction…yet these realms are not hopelessly desolate, but seared with beauty and light, peopled by characters who heed the call to lay everything on the line for a chance(sometimes infinitesimal) to defeat the evil that threatens to annihilate everything they love, for they have realized that their world, though fallen—and not so dissimilar to our own—is worth fighting for. When reading my books, especially Deadmarsh Fey, I hope you lose yourself in these worlds, that you let go and journey along with the characters, grow attached to them, possibly even become them if only for a brief while—seeing in them a reflection of yourself. And if by doing so you discover what your “home” is, then that is reward enough, for it will mean I have made the best use of the time that was given to me.
What was the most surprising thing you learned in creating your characters?
That I had to trust them enough to let them have free reign. They knew better than I did where to take the story…because it was theirs, and they were living it. All my characters were extremely vivid in my imagination when I began writing the book (save for one or two who materialized out of nowhere mid-novel and drastically changed the course of events), but Kip, and especially Carver, presented themselves to me almost fully formed. I didn’t have to do much of anything with those two, besides let them take center stage and steal whatever scene they were in, which Kip did with dignity and gravitas that would have made the ancestral fylgja, guardian spirit of his family, proud—and Carver did with enough demonic savoir faire to make the devil himself turn green with envy.
I know many people might find it hard to believe, or even slightly crazy, that characters an author creates can became separate flesh and blood entities from his/her imagination, but at a certain point, my characters did, demanded to be let off the lead, and I had no choice but to comply. Trying to maneuver events in an inorganic way, forcing things to go in the direction I thought was best, rather than what the story and characters were calling for, would have stalled the book and turned it into something completely different, and much less cohesive—not to mention deadly dull. To a much, much lesser degree, the characters in my last novel, Corcitura, asserted themselves, too, but never had this happened with such immediacy as it did in Deadmarsh Fey, to the point where I feel that I was just the facilitator for this book. Roger and Company were the real storyweavers, and once I realized this, I passed the tiller into their hands, and let them steer the ship where they willed.
Why do you feel you had to tell this story?
There was no way I couldn’t tell this story. Once I made the decision to write Deadmarsh Fey, once my year of confusion had come to an end and I determined the course this saga would take, I was seized. There’s no other way to describe the intensity of emotion that came over me. Not long afterward, once the characters had nudged me out of the way, the book began, essentially, writing itself. I love my first two novels, I always will, but there is something different about Deadmarsh Fey, something unique, that I didn’t experience when writing these earlier books. With this novel, I discovered what I was meant to write—fantasy, or rather, dream-sagas, as my beloved has christened them. There is a quote by J. R. R. Tolkien, who has been a defining force and inspiration not only on my writing, but also in my life, that struck me when I first heard it more than a decade ago, because I agree with him completely: “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory.” I’ve always understood him to mean that fantasy writers craft what we do not to escape our world, but to understand it. By losing myself in my invented universes, worlds that mirror our own in strange and startling and often unsettlingly familiar ways, I feel I have found where I truly belong, finally fulfilling the gnomic wisdom Gandalf spoke to Frodo, and, unknowingly, to me, those several years ago.
What was the most magical thing that happened while creating Roger?
This was an especially hard question for me to answer, and intensely personal. I started out with one response, which I still think is partially valid, but a few days ago, it came to me—quite suddenly, shockingly, and with no small degree of heartache—that Roger and I had a much deeper bond than I’d realized until something of a personal nature happened to me this week that brought painfully intense emotions I’d been unknowingly suppressing rushing to the surface. It wasn’t a pretty picture when this happened, but it was necessary, and cathartic, and gave me tremendous clarity about this character and what he really means to me—and revealed why I had always felt so much love, tenderness, and compassion toward Roger when I was creating him, and do till this day.
To begin with, I originally believed the most magical thing that had happened when I wrote Roger into being was that I became him in so many ways. It was a natural thing to have occurred—and I’m sure many authors feel the same way about their creations—since Roger was my main protagonist. But he always, strangely, felt more like my own flesh and blood than any other character I’d ever created before, and it wasn’t only because Deadmarsh Fey is told in third person, restricted, which means I, perforce, had to see everything through Roger’s eyes—all that was glorious and nightmarish, good and evil, one more often than not masquerading as the other and making it nearly impossible to distinguish friend from foe. Yes, I had to put myself into the shoes of this ten year old English child who was obsessed with dragons. Yes, I had to imagine what his reactions to things literally out of this world would be. And yes, most imperative of all, I had to know him better than I knew myself, and needed to do so in order to make him live and breathe on the page and be real not only to me, but to anyone who ever chose to read his story and journey by his side into the perilous realm he called home.
But it wasn’t until very recently that I realized, with the force of a punch to my heart, just why Roger had always been so dear to me. Without delving into too much detail, for over a decade, I endured a very desolate period of misdiagnoses and wrong information regarding a health issue that has a chance to be fully resolved in the coming weeks, and was told throughout these preceding years that many things I had always dreamed of, many joyous events most women, I imagine, would want to happen in their lives, would not be possible for me to experience. During this extended dark night of the soul, my books became a lifeline, an outlet into which I could pour my heart and being, and never more did I do this than with Deadmarsh Fey…because of Roger, even if the full realization of why wasn’t brought home to me till seventy two hours ago when I finally understood the reason it felt so right for me to have always thought of him as my flesh and blood, although I never phrased it like that to myself till then, nor had I been aware that any name needed to be given to the feelings unconsciously caged within my heart.
After an intense few days of soul-searching, anguish, and tears—lots of tears—I finally understand why Roger is so precious to me, and why I feel so close to him, even still. In him, I saw the son I hoped to have one day, and believed I never would be able to. Revealing this to my beloved (who was with me when the dam holding back my suppressed emotions broke), reflecting upon it, and discussing how it had affected me without my knowledge, until the events of this week triggered clarity of mind, touched him deeply and opened up a way of thinking that made immediate and incredible sense to me, and allowed me to realize that I can now let Roger go. Watching this literary child of mine mature and grow in successive books will be vital for me—and part of the healing process, I suspect—but I understand, now, that while I will always love Roger, and he will forever be in my heart, my love doesn’t have to be confined to just my literary son. One day, it can be given to the real child whose very existence need no longer be a nebulous and unattainable dream.
I considered having Roger meet Smaug, but quickly came to my senses. Tolkien’s beast isn’t exactly the nicest of souls (Need I bring up the whole “I am Fire! I am Death!” thing?), and having a dragon-mad child obsessed with conscripting a fire-breather, any fire-breather he could get his hands on, into one insane scheme after another—a child determined not to take no for an answer—would have resulted in Roger being torched into a little pile of ash in two seconds flat.
Then I contemplated initiating a meeting between Roger and Puddleglum from C. S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair (my third favorite Narnia book after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Magician’s Nephew), but Roger would have gotten fed up with the marsh-wiggles’s doldrummy woe-is-me-ness after about 6.9 minutes.
In the end, I settled on Bagheera of Jungle Book fame, who just so happens to have earned a passing, and incredibly sarcastic, mention from Master Coffyn in Chapter 19 of Deadmarsh Fey. I’ve been fond of Bagheera for most of my life, ever since I first saw the animated Jungle Book when I was a very young child. He’s just so lordly and majestic, wise and, let’s be honest, awesome. Another reason for my admiration is that I love cats, especially black ones, but because I’m slightly allergic to them, I have had to express my affection for these beautiful creatures from a distance by putting them into my novels, hence the reason Kip plays such a huge and pivotal role in Deadmarsh Fey.
And that brings me to why I’d want Roger and Bagheera to meet. Kip definitely has his own distinct personality—he presented himself to me almost fully formed, as I mentioned above, after all—but while I had many inspirations for my cat, this panther was a defining influence on him. Roger and Kip share a tremendous bond—a bond initiated before the events in Deadmarsh Fey take place and solidified as the story progresses—and Roger having a chance to get acquainted with a character I consider to be Kip’s literary older brother would be a visceral reinforcement of what the boy already knows, that even though Kip is, as Roger thinks at one point, a “compact little animal,” the cat, like Bagheera, has a panther’s heart, strong and fierce and fearless, and would never back down from defending those he loves when they are threatened, be it by a Jagged One or Shere Khan, it matters not. And here’s something that didn’t occur to me until this very moment…Mowgli and Roger are the same age, and, though endearing, are each quite a handful—not to mention that there are forces at work that would love nothing more than to see both boys dead—so if Kip went along to this meeting, ye gods would he and Bagheera have loads to commiserate about!
What are some of your current and future projects that you can share with us?
My current project is the sequel to Deadmarsh Fey—set seven years later—and the second novel in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light. Several times in Deadmarsh Fey, I mentioned the Vickers family, particularly Isobel, the youngest daughter, who is Roger’s contemporary and good friend. Near the end of the novel, Isobel’s and her family’s link to the Deadmarshes, and the beings hunting them, is hinted at, and, to a certain extent, revealed to Roger in a shocking way. What he discovers leads directly into book two, Isobel’s story, which takes place on a desolate rock called Cutwater Island. Here there be sharks, and demons of the deep. And a creature whose memory is as fathomless as its desire for revenge.
Once the sequel to Deadmarsh Fey has been completed, I will be working on the next two novels in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light. All the books already have titles, but these are rather sensitive, so I’m holding them in reserve till I announce the publication of each novel.
Have you ever been really freaked out by something on the internet? If so, what?
Oh, good heavens, YES! And fairly recently, too! I blame my beloved. It was entirely his fault! Imagine me pointing an accusatory finger at him right now. To be fair, though, I went along enthusiastically when he suggested we watch scary videos on YouTube. It’s nice to shiver with the one you love, which was the motivation behind this temporary derangement of ours. We started out quite innocently enough with UFO videos, which were more strange and interesting than scary, and ridiculously tame compared to what came next…
After we’d reached marginal utility in the flying saucer department, this video suddenly—and very sinisterly, in hindsight—materialized on the suggested videos sidebar. It was called, “Top 10 Most Shocking and Unexplainable Happenings Ever to Be Caught on Camera!” or some other such bombastic, and impossible-to-resist, title. By that point, feeling a little disappointed that the UFO videos had failed to scar us for life, we were game for anything, and also kind of high on ourselves, I have to admit, for apparently having such nerves of steel. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that our attitude toward the supernatural in that moment could be boiled down to, “Us? Us? Get scared by that? HA!” and so we (stupidly) clicked on this new devilry, to use a turn of phrase coined by Boromir (And we all remember what happened to him…).
To say we made a mistake is the understatement of the millennium. This video, this Ring-esque horrorfest masquerading as CCTV footage, reduced us to quaking little puddling messes, what with its ghosts shrieking out of hotel rooms, its phantom orderlies flashing by in the ER, the spectral girl wearing a blood red dress appearing in the middle of an alley somewhere in Taiwan, a “possessed” woman—who let out primal shrieks every five seconds as if she were being internally roasted alive by a legion of devils—contorting and flailing about in a supermarket aisle; a brace of freaky, seven foot tall men without eyebrows, dressed all in black and bearing an uncanny resemblance to the Blues Brothers, wandering around lobbies…and the pièce de résistance of Fright Night 2018—a skin-shivering, blood-curdling, knee-knocking, absolutely TERRIFYING clip of a girl in an elevator in China, I believe—I have no intention of opening myself up to a second near hysterical fit for accuracy’s sake by rewatching this abominable video—that was so unsettling because she seemed to be gibbering at someone, frightened of someone, arguing with, hunted by, and having a very disturbing conversation with someone…only nobody was there! Gooseflesh is breaking out all over me as I type this! And then the narrator butts in and says, in a calm and totally detached voice, that this girl was discovered dead in a vat a few days later, her clothes neatly folded on the ground, and that this story was the inspiration for the film Dark Water, which, needless to say, my beloved and I have no intention of ever watching. Sleep being elusive for one interminable evening was quite enough, thanks very much. Give us June Carter and Johnny Cash songs, Monty Python sketches, and political videos for our YouTube dates any night of the week. We’ve learned our lesson, and how! *shudders*
If I came to your house and looked in your attic/closet/basement, what’s the one thing that would surprise me the most?
If you looked in my attic, you’d be stunned by the overwhelming plethora of pumpkins and scarecrows and Christmas decorations that are stuffed in there. If you looked in my closet, you’d see a lot of clothes and dresses that I keep forgetting I own. I mean this; over the last few months, I’ve discovered not one, but two rather fetching dresses that I had no memory of ever buying. The tags were even still on them! If you looked in my basement, I’d be really surprised, because I don’t have one…that I know of! What’s it like? Are there Morlocks living down there? Tell me, Jean! I’m sensing the beginnings of a new novel, here…
Most horrifying dream you have ever had?
A seven foot tall E.T. dressed as the Grim Reaper, emerging from my bathroom in the dead of night with murderous intent, scythe in hand. I was about five years old when I had this dream, and E.T. and I didn’t make peace until fairly recently. Now I’m quite fond of the freakish yet adorable little tree stump, but our relationship was a bit strained for several years, to say the least.
Which incident in your life has totally changed the way you think today?
Meeting my beloved has not only changed the way I think about everything—my past, my present, my future, my joys and sorrows, setbacks and triumphs—but has irrevocably changed my life, as well. Loving him, and receiving his love in return, has made me a fuller person—complete—and has led to me knowing myself better than I ever did before. I find it astonishing how in tune we are. Here’s just one of many examples I can share…we have the same crazy and unbelievably random (And I mean RANDOM! I’m thinking of one in particular right now that knocked us both flat by proving just what a couple of complete born-to-be-together weirdoes we truly are) thoughts, and blurt them out at the exact same moment! I have lost count of how often this has happened, but it’s pretty much a daily occurrence, and has been for quite some time.
Being in tune in so many ways has been a hallmark of our relationship since our earliest days. Our very first conversation had sparks shooting off between us when we both revealed a mutual love for the Eddas, everything Germanic and Saga-inspired…and I confessed to him my obsession with JAWS and sharks in general—and he didn’t flinch! He’s exposed me to so many wonderful things, some of my favorites being music—he has fantastic taste—and philosophers, the one impacting me the most to date being Henry Corbin, whose ideas matched up so perfectly with concepts I had been mulling over for thirteen years but never had a name for till my beloved shared this luminous thinker with me. Our oneness of spirit has grown deeper with each passing hour as we’ve shared our lives with each other—all the important things and the silliest ones, too, and been there for each other in the best and worst of times—and we’ve continuously discovered, more and more every day, how beautifully and miraculously our souls, and thoughts, chime in harmony. And it’s uncanny how he knows exactly what articles to send me, because no matter what they’re about (from the sagas to politics, and everything in between), I devour them and find myself forever exclaiming, “Yes! Yes, that’s what I was thinking! This is what I have always believed!” and tapping into a wellspring of inspiration that has long lain dormant, till he shares with me something he knew I’d love, knew would be the spark needed to kindle my thoughts and ignite them into being. This happened just last week, and because of what I read in the essay my beloved sent me, because the thoughts of the writer echoed in my soul and literally roused the Bear hibernating there, a story arc which I’d been struggling with for over a year found resolution, came full circle, and changed the course of one of the books in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light entirely.
Another thing I find absolutely wondrous is how he’s opened my mind to so many things I was very closed off to before, very biased against, in fact, and made me view the world, especially history, differently. Yet he’s also reinforced beliefs I already held, making them stronger and richer and more defined in my heart and soul. He encourages me and I him to become the people he and I were put on this earth to be, which I think is a rare and beautiful aspect of our relationship, and something we are blessed to share. And even in areas where our beliefs diverge—religion, for example, which has never been an issue for us—we still have commonality, because we both have an appreciation and respect for the Divine, and see it at work in our lives. We enrich each other—never tearing down, always building up, for we realize how precious a gift love is, and are very grateful to have found one another at long last. We’re passionate advocates of each other’s writing, too. His background is philosophy, and I am not being biased when I say he’s brilliant, and not just in this field, but in many other areas, as well. Just don’t get him going on Richard III or he’ll recite the entire Shakespearean tragedy from the beginning! My little playful ribbing aside, every time we speak, each moment we’re together, I am continually inspired in every way, and I cannot even begin to tell you how having his unconditional support and love across all areas of my life has changed it, and me, so profoundly.
I’m amazed anew every day by all of this—amazed anew each day by him—and am incredibly, eternally, grateful to have him in my life, to have been blessed with such a glorious soulmate, whom I love with all my heart. He truly is the greatest gift God could have ever given to me.
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This selection of quotes will appear in a very personal interview on Friday, featured at Jean the Book Nerd’s great site, but as that interview is quite extensive, I thought it would be a good idea to share them with you today in a separate post. I hope you enjoy this little glimpse into Deadmarsh Fey.
~Melika
“This beast, like the greater evil we faced later on, went by many names. When he invaded Everl’aria, the Moarteans christened him Groaza. Others called him The Devourer of the World. And to those on Sviddheim, he was The Bottomless, for his savagery had no end.”
“I’ve seen its other side. I know what lives here, what’s been slumbering for so long.”
A hollow pit opened up where Roger’s heart was supposed to be. “How would you know that?”
“I woke it up.”
He blinked in surprise and was even more startled when the dragon mimicked the action, but did so sideways. A clear membrane coated its eye, then drew back to reveal hues infinitely more searing than before—so vibrant it was painful for Roger to look into them. Orange pulsating like a lava flow, yellow glistening brighter than a city made of gold, green flashing like St. Elmo’s fire. All these colors danced not a foot in front of Roger’s face, flickering within that gigantic orb…
“Why should I not know what he’s really called?”
“Tell a man your name and he will have power over you forever,” Carver muttered.
“I don’t know how else to explain this, but I could feel her age, almost as if the weight of her years were pressing against me like a great mountain of corpses that would collapse onto me if I so much as looked at her the wrong way.”
Gryffyn looked as though he were about to have some sort of fit. “It’s far too dark in here for you to be taking this so calmly. Anything could be creeping up on us at this very moment, and we’d be none the wiser till it had us by the throat! We can’t see a foot in front of our faces, not one foot! Why are you not afraid?”
“Because I am the monster lurking in the shadows,” Incendiu snarled.
“They were all children, yes, as were the fiends who allowed themselves to be Hosted.”
“But that happened in a wilder age, a less enlightened time,” Roger argued.
“Do not make the mistake of thinking present society is so highly advanced that they have forgotten their baser instincts, Roger Knightley. Evil is evil no matter the century, or the world.”
“There are more things in Heaven and earth…” Uncle Gryffyn muttered.
“Now ain’t the time to be quotin’ old Bill Shakes, guv,” Bellows shot in.
“You’re not allowed in church!”
The Jagged One squinted at him. “Sez who?”
“Says God!”
Carver tsked. “I thought you Christians welcomed everyone.”
“We make exceptions for demons like you.”
“Will you not bid me welcome, Brother?” the beast mocked. The dragon’s voice paralyzed Roger where he stood. Hearing it sapped his strength, stole his will, made him feel as though his mind had been crushed between slabs of stone. There was chaos in it, and destruction—a voice crafted of darkness and the death of worlds.”
Flesh and bone and hearts unknown, lead to the rath and your fate will be shown…
Deadmarsh. The name struck terror into the hearts of all who heard it. But to Roger Knightley, neither Deadmarsh the house, nor Deadmarsh the family, had ever been anything to fear. Nearly each summer of his young life had been spent in that manor on the moors, having wild adventures with his cousin, Lockie, the Deadmarsh heir. This year should have been no different, but when Roger arrives, he finds everything, and everyone, changed. The grounds are unkempt, the servants long gone. Kip, the family cat, has inexplicably grown and glares at Roger as if he is trying to read the boy’s mind. Roger’s eldest cousin, Travers, always treated as a servant, now dresses like a duchess and wears round her neck a strange moonstone given to her by someone known as Master Coffyn, who has taken over the teaching of Lockie at a school in Wales called Nethermarrow.
And soon after he crosses the threshold of Deadmarsh, Roger discovers that Coffyn has overtaken Lockie. The boy is deceitful, riddled with fear, and has returned bearing tales of creatures called Jagged Ones that claim to be of the Fey and can somehow conceal themselves while standing in the full light of the moon. What they want with Lockie, Roger cannot fathom, until the horror within his cousin lashes out, and it becomes savagely clear that these Jagged Ones and the Dark Wreaker they serve are not only after Lockie and Travers, but Roger, too.
Joining forces with an ally whose true nature remains hidden, Roger seeks to unravel the tapestry of lies woven round his family’s connection to the death-haunted world of Everl’aria—and the Dark Wreaker who calls it home. The deeper Roger delves into the past, the more he begins to suspect that the tales of dark deeds done in the forest behind Deadmarsh, deeds in which village children made sacrifice to an otherworldly beast and were never seen or heard from again, are true. And if there is truth in these outlandish stories, what of the rumor that it was not an earthquake which rocked the moors surrounding Deadmarsh sixteen years ago, but a winged nightmare attempting to break free of its underground prison? Enlisting the aid of a monster equipped with enough inborn firepower to blast his enemies into oblivion might be as suicidal as Roger’s friends insist, yet the boy knows he needs all the help he can get if there is to be any hope of defeating not only the Dark Wreaker and his servants, but an unholy trinity known as the Bear, the Wolf, and the Curse That Walks The Earth.
And then there is the foe named Blood Wood, who might be the deadliest of them all.
Racing against time, Roger must find a way to end the battle being waged across worlds before the night of Lockie’s eleventh birthday—two days hence. If he fails, blood will drown the earth. And Roger and his entire family will fulfill the prophecy of fey’s older, more lethal meaning…
Fated to die.
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It’s been a while since I last posted any updates, but today, I am happy to share with you a new and very in-depth (possibly my most in-depth one to date) interview. Many thanks to author Sonya M. Black for providing me with such insightful questions. I hope you enjoy reading not only my thoughts on writing and other subjects, but also learning more about a few special books that have impacted my life in very different ways. Maybe you’ll be inspired to invite them into your lives and let them work their magic on you, as well.
A dragon lands in front of your Main Character, what would they do?
It just so happens that my main character in Deadmarsh Fey, Roger Knightley, is obsessed with dragons, and has been since he was practically out of the womb, cutting his teeth on his mother’s fanciful stories about them, blazing through the Mabinogion by the time he was six, and venturing onward to further fill his head with even more fantastic legends, his favorite being the one about Merlin and Vortigern and the fortress that had been toppled again and again by the red and white dragons battling in a pool beneath its foundations.
Given all of that, if a flesh and blood dragon landed in front of him, Roger wouldn’t scream or scarper away in fright, but would rather shriek in delight and run forward to hug one of the dragon’s foreclaws, then try to convince the beast to fly him back to Wraxhall, Roger’s boarding school, to equalize the playing field, as it were, by teaching his headmaster a lesson—turning Master Crisp into Master Ash…literally. But once Roger came to his senses, he would do all in his power to enlist the dragon as an ally against the Dark Wreaker of Everl’aria, and the curse this fell being has laid upon Roger’s family. You’ll have to read Deadmarsh Fey to find out if any of this really does happen in the book, or if I’m just letting my imagination rocket upward like a dragon soaring through the night sky, its black wings blotting out the light of the moon.
What literary pilgrimages have you gone on?
It’s not the main focus of my upcoming trip to England, but when I’m there, we’ll be spending a day in Oxford, walking in the footsteps of two authors who have had a significant impact not only on my writing, but upon my life, as well—J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. I expect to be awed the entire time I’m there, and quite emotional, too. Oh, and a visit to the Eagle and Child is also on the agenda! 6,900 pictures of the snug where the Inklings used to meet will be taken, so as not to miss a single angle, of course. I can’t wait!
What is the first book that made you cry?
I’m sure other books got to me before this one did, but the first book I can remember which made me cry was The Turn of the Screw—and that was because it horrified me, my tears bursting forth at the very end when Miles screams, “Peter Quint, you devil!” I didn’t appreciate the ambiguity and brilliance of that line till many years later, so as a child of eight, my reaction was sheer terror. And yet I loved that little novel! I even owned a Classic comic book type edition of it that I read so often the spine broke. It’s my favorite “ghost” story of all time, and a masterful psychological study that I do not think any film adaptation has done justice to yet, although The Innocents comes close to capturing the unsettling “otherness” of Miles and Flora, and the paranoia (or does she have just cause to fear?) of the Governess.
But the first book that truly touched something deep within my heart and made me not only cry, but bawl, was David Copperfield, which I read at the age of twelve. It didn’t matter that one hundred and forty years separated me from David’s world. I identified with him, was outraged by every injustice he suffered—especially the betrayal of those he’d considered close friends—rejoiced with him when he succeeded, and felt like I was living his life alongside him as I devoured the pages of that book. Till this day, I find myself smiling when I remember Aunt Betsy screeching, “Donkeeees!” or how Mr. Micawber was always sure something would turn up. But don’t get me started on Uriah Heep. I have no fond memories of him!
Looking back, I see how the cruelty David endured at the hands of Mr. Murdstone stayed with me and inspired some of Master Coffyn’s qualities in Deadmarsh Fey, especially his penchant for harsh and often violent discipline against children. And now that I think of it, that fey quality of Miles and Flora so hauntingly delineated in The Turn of the Screw found its way into Deadmarsh, too, coloring certain aspects of Lockie’s character, so even though both books made me cry for very different reasons, they both impacted my writing in their own unique ways.
Did you ever consider writing under a pseudonym?
No, never. I’ve always wanted to be known as the author of my novels, not because I have a thirst for fame—I prefer the focus to be on my stories, not me—but because I worked hard on them. The funny thing is, though, that many readers have thought Melika Dannese Lux is a pseudonym, but I can assure you that’s exactly the name printed on my birth certificate.
Do you try more to be original or to deliver to readers what they want?
I think what readers want is originality. We can all be inspired by the fantasy greats, of course, and I freely admit that Tolkien and Lewis are my literary “fathers,” but to be derivative to the point of copying them is not something I’ve ever wanted to do. I’m a little fanatical when it comes to being original, so much so that when I created the name of my main villain and Otherworld in Deadmarsh Fey, I typed both into Google and Amazon to make certain they hadn’t been used before! I understand that, according to conventional wisdom, you should compare your works to those of other fantasy authors to hook readers, or even get an agent. But that’s the problem with conventional wisdom—it’s conventional, stultifying, and only interested in preserving the status quo, leaving no room for the unexpected, and very dismissive of that which it does not understand or cannot fit into a neatly designed mold. Why can’t a fantasy book stand on its own without having to be compared to anything that’s come before? Isn’t that what people really want, to read something unlike anything they’ve ever read? To get lost in a world they can discover and explore for themselves, make their home in, without being encumbered by any preconceived notions? That would be a wondrous thing, I think, and much more gratifying than reading yet another Game of Thrones clone.
How do you balance making demands on the reader with taking care of the reader?
The philosopher Nicholas Malebranche once said, “Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the soul.” Laziness of mind is bad enough, but having an unengaged soul makes attentiveness, and really anything else, impossible. This is why I don’t believe asking my readers to fully invest themselves—mind, heart, and soul—into Deadmarsh Fey is being unduly demanding, since I invested my entire being into writing this book. As the author, I see myself as the facilitator, and it is my job, through my storyweaving, to remind my readers that it is incumbent upon them to take care of themselves. I won’t spoon feed you, neither will I string you along, but you should know at the outset that I will not be your Virgil, guiding you through the darkling night. I want my readers to discover things for themselves in this world I have offered to them, a world in which they can lose themselves entirely—a world it is my greatest hope they will make their own. And to achieve this, attentiveness—concentration—is a must, not because Deadmarsh Fey is some labyrinth you need Ariadne’s Thread to find your way out of, but because giving not only my book, but any book, a cursory reading shows not only a lack of respect for the author, but for the reader’s own self, as well. How can you be moved, touched, inspired, if your only objective is to race through a book to finish it as fast as you can? What chance is there for you to experience wonder if you don’t let the story absorb you, if you cut yourself off from allowing the tale to strike a chord in your soul and make your spirit take flight? The opportunity to connect with something beyond you has been neglected, the moment for discovery, expanding your imagination, and knowing yourself deeper, lost when your overriding ambition is how many pages you can read in a day to reach a quota for the year, or some other such arbitrary marker that robs you of the chance to be seized by wonder. It makes the act of reading no act at all, but a passive disengagement that seems completely pointless—and dreadfully hollow.
With every book I have written, but never more so than with Deadmarsh Fey, my goal has been that my readers become active participants in the experience. If this happens, I believe they will feel as if they are sharing in the recreation of the novel and will be able to capture the essence, the atmosphere, in which the work was first written. By becoming a part of the story, they are truly making it into something new and theirs, which is what I want most of all. I want them to lose themselves in a tale that seems fantastical at first, but the deeper they read, the more engaged they become, they realize that the truths in this book mirror the truths in their own lives, that these characters are not so unlike them, and that they, the readers, will miss these kindred souls after the final page is turned. When total immersion occurs, my readers will see Roger and the other characters not as I do, no longer as I’ve described them, but through their own eyes, the images I’ve created meeting the images my words have birthed in their minds, catching fire, and taking flight, burning like a phoenix across their imaginations and hopefully inspiring them to create unexplored worlds of their own, or at least to never be the same after reading this book because it has touched them in some deep and meaningful way and possibly revealed to them their true “home.” That is my wish for everyone who reads Deadmarsh Fey—that they will be open to receiving what the book has in mind for them, and be changed for the better once their journey with my characters comes to an end.
Do you view writing as a kind of spiritual practice?
When you invent something out of nothing, you are, in a sense, sharing in the act of creation. I’m not trying to be blasphemous or presumptuous by saying that, but I truly feel, and have done so for many years, that writing is as close as I come to touching the divine, to brushing up against the world that shimmers just beyond our own. My beloved says that all true art is a spiritual practice, and I agree with him wholeheartedly, as I do with his christening my work dream-sagas, for that is where my original inspiration for Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light came from—in the chaos of a dream that quite frankly was almost a nightmare, a vision of two young girls, sisters, cowering at the end of a corridor in a small cottage on an fog-encircled island, flattening themselves against the wall and scarcely breathing for fear any sound would alert the gargantuan demonic bear snuffling down the hallway, growing ever nearer, to their presence—the bear that was hungering for their blood.
In many ways, I also view writing as a prayer, a reaching up toward my higher self, my angel, if you will, the self I am meant to be but have been separated from here in my exile upon this earth. It’s a constant striving to make sense out of the thoughts in my head, the inspirations, the “why” of life, and to weave them into a tapestry of light and shadow, of good and evil and the grey areas in between where heroes may doubt their valor but choose to fight on nonetheless, often against seemingly insurmountable odds, because they are dedicated to saving that which they hold dear, their world, the people they love and are willing to lay down their lives to defend. That call to fight for something greater than yourself is also very spiritual at its core, and was a vital thread I wove into the fabric of Deadmarsh Fey in ways I had never done with any other book I had written before. In this novel, in this Otherworld, I feel as though I truly am writing what I dream, both literally and in a deeper sense. I have now found my “home,” at least where writing is concerned, the place where I have finally been able to fulfill the maxim that changed my life many years ago: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” Sixteen years old, was I, when Gandalf’s wisdom pierced my heart and set me on this trajectory. The journey has been hard, frustrating, and often incredibly lonely, but it has brought me joy, too, never more so than now, and I would not trade the experience for anything in the world, nor, if given the chance to go back and choose differently, would I diverge from this path that was presented to me. I believe in my soul that despite all the obstacles, it was the path I was destined to take…and how things were always meant to be.
I also think that there is something intensely, almost ecstatically, spiritual about being seized by a story, which happened to me when writing Deadmarsh Fey. From a certain point onward, I was no longer in control of this book. My characters quickly and not too subtly disabused me of the notion that I knew what was best, and since I really had no choice in the matter, I let them take over, and Deadmarsh Fey became a much better tale because I got out of my own way. And that is something I would encourage every writer to do, whether you believe our craft is a spiritual practice or not…let your ego go. It is your worst enemy, will shut you down, choke your creativity. You must diminish for inspiration to increase, and only when you do this will your story have the potential to take wing, blaze across the heavens, and transform into something unique and rapturous. Something you and you alone were born to write.
Do you read your book reviews? How do you deal with bad or good ones?
Yes, I do read them. No author likes to receive bad reviews, and at one time, they had a powerfully negative effect on me, but as I’ve gotten older, and grown as a writer, they don’t influence me anymore. I know the value of my work, and nobody’s negative opinion is going to make me doubt it or love it any less, especially people who abandon my book after only reading a fraction of it. Additionally, if somebody is just spewing vitriol, I don’t take it to heart. And if they completely miss the point of the book, I don’t internalize that, either.
I do appreciate good reviews, of course, especially when the reader invests him- or herself into the world I have created—living through my characters, even becoming them for the short while they are in their company—and therefore is able to truly comprehend what I am trying to say instead of simply glossing over details that were not included as filler, words that weren’t written to pad the pages, just to get things over with for whatever reason, as I mentioned above. It’s a very rewarding feeling when a reader “gets” my work, as happened recently with the wonderful Dianne Bylo at Tome Tender. Her review has become my favorite, and the best, of any of my books thus far, not only because it was erudite and well-written, but also because it revealed that Dianne had let herself be seized by Deadmarsh Fey and thereby connected with it in a profound way, which is what I hope the experience will be for everyone who reads this book.
Do you hide any secrets in your books that only a few people will find?
I do, but when it came to Deadmarsh Fey, everything that I hid within its pages was built up and eventually revealed in a rather shocking manner a few chapters from the end of the novel. Even at the eleventh hour—and by that I mean some of the very last scenes of the book—I was still unraveling secrets I had woven throughout the story from the beginning. Nearly all of them found resolution in Deadmarsh Fey, though I did leave a few open ended enough to be explored further in the three successive novels in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light. Each one of these secrets, every arc that was created in Deadmarsh Fey to be spooled out into the other books, however, did have a suitable ending when its furtherance of the plot in this tale had served its purpose. This was a conscious choice, because I despise loose ends, and even though I think that in some cases it is fine to be ambiguous—as with The Turn of the Screw—I believe that ambiguity for its own sake, or as an attempt to be “edgy,” ruins the integrity of a story.
In the sequel to Deadmarsh Fey, which I’m working on now, there is a sort of inside joke for most of the novel, but it is revealed at precisely the moment when it counts most and is quite earthshattering. And yet…when readers get to that point, I have a sense they will most likely feel that if they’d just thought about it a bit more, they would have been able to solve this riddle fairly early on. I’m hoping the reaction will include a fist to the forehead and a dramatic exclamation of, “Good gad! How could I have been so blind?!” I’m incredibly eager to interweave this plot point throughout the novel—palming the ace where I can, scattering false clues, then finally lowering the boom and blowing the lid off this secret when the time is right. I confess to taking a little enjoyment in being tricksy like this when crafting my books. All right, it’s more than a little. It’s a LOT! But it makes things tremendously exciting for me, and I hope this excitement will transfer to everyone who reads my novels, this one especially.
What is your favorite childhood book?
The Ivy Cottage by E. J. Taylor. Even though it was very short, and I first read it at the age of four, I still remember the feeling of warmth with which this book enveloped me—as cozy as a sheltering blanket, as soothing as a mug of hot chocolate enjoyed by a roaring fire. The illustrations were entrancing, and I was completely captivated by the idea of living in a cottage in the woods, or one just on the borders of it. After all these years, this is still my dream.
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I’m so happy to be back at The Fantasy Hive this week, but instead of an interview, one of my most favorite excerpts from Deadmarsh Fey is being featured! Thanks once again go to Laura and the great people at this fantastic site for allowing me to showcase my work.
I hope this excerpt will intrigue and unsettle you, and make you insatiably curious to find out what happens to Roger next!
When wandering through a forest, one expects to see many things. Trees, squirrels, maybe even a bear…
A feast laid out solely for you in the middle of a clearing…
That last one shouldn’t have made the list, you say? Try telling that to Roger Knightley, then, for it is exactly what he stumbled upon while sojourning in the woods behind Deadmarsh.
Here, on this whimsical table, were found treats stuffed to bursting with enough luscious flavors to satisfy the cravings of a boy possessed of a sweet tooth the size of the North York Moors. How could he resist such a temptation? I feel safe in saying most anyone would find it difficult to do so…assuming you could actually seewhat had been set out to entice you. Forgot to mention that small detail. The feast is invisible, unless you look at it through a glass darkly, which, for Roger, means peering through the two halves of a cracked, milky blue moonstone known as The Eye of Arianrhod. Without this, there’d be no hope of piercing the glamour that hangs over such a fey place. But is it a glamour of enchantment?
Or of evil?
I invite you to read on and discover for yourself…
The Feast in the Forest, excerpted from Deadmarsh Fey
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Boomtown Rats -> The Boomtown Rats -> Band Aid/Live Aid/Live 8 -> Band Aid 30 to stop the spread of Ebola
TOPIC: Band Aid 30 to stop the spread of Ebola
The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!
Date: Mon Nov 10 1:25 PM, 2014
Band Aid 30 to stop the spread of Ebola
Has been announced. Waiting for news of the line up.
Love Julesxxx
Bob's personal Hippy Angel - well in my dreams ;-)
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=709427348&ref=profile
http://www.facebook.com/BobGeldofFans
A handful of not particularly interesting names, but doesn't matter as long as it sells:
news.sky.com/story/1370501/1d-sheeran-and-sande-all-on-band-aid-single
more from the Mirror: http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/band-aid-30-live-announcement-4603027
-- Edited by Jules on Monday 10th of November 2014 02:31:19 PM
Date: Tue Nov 11 3:16 PM, 2014
To pre order a CD and enter a competition to be there at the recording on Saturday:
www.bandaid30.com/
noelindublin
Bob said they would have to change some of the lyrics to reflect the ebola situation. I wonder how this will work out? When the Rats were doing Howard hughes in Portsmouth Geldof sang 'There's flies everywhere, f****** with the air'. I doubt he'll be this explicit, but trust Geldof to come up with something.
In the meantime he's proved he's a bona fide pop/rock star again, with the Rats comeback, so we need not worry too much about his being a 'forgotten' pop star.
All i know is the guy from Elbow is one of the stars of the new recording. Good luck to 'em all and roll on the next Rats gig.
noelindublin wrote:
Strange he is often referred to as "The former Boomtown Rats singer"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/11220735/Band-Aid-30-line-up-revealed.html
The former Boomtown Rats singer said he was inspired to raise money for the fight against Ebola by a call from the United Nations and reading about the bravery of nurses and doctors who had flown out to treat victims.
Jules wrote:
It's exciting enough to be at Maida Vale next week, I don't want to go Geldof Crazy! As it will probably be loads of 1D fans, I'd look like their dodgy uncle.
Anyway, I'm off to the England game. Need something a little calming in my life.
JoanOfArc
The Fine Art of Surfacing
Date: Mon Nov 17 11:16 PM, 2014
I've just come off a forum where they posted about some Africans saying these charity songs can make the situation out in Africa worse.
sorry but it seems to me theyre being totally up their arses........... really, am I missing something here???
I mean presumably charity helps in some ways huh? - or am I completely bloody wrong in thinking that
www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/11/bob-geldof-ebola-africa-band-aid-bono-one-direction-famin-20141113833733496.html
^^^^^Cool post as always Joan^^^^^^^^
I suggest they should of used their voices to communicate better with us not bloody tell us our efforts are in vain
how crap is that for communication skill?
they do nothing better for the image imo.
makes me think when student feminists were up in arms about this cheeky lil number..........
cos I like to think the majority aren't stupid........ people don't go out and rape women because of a song, generally speaking....
and neither do they see Africa in any worse light because of a bloody charity song..
hmm wonder if those people interviewed on the Aljazeera site have ever really needed charity in their life?
so many people seem to be banging on about how it doesn't fix the problem....
well bloody tell us normal jo bloggses what the hell DOES help!!!
oh its always anti this anti that..... its about time people everywhere, not just AFrica, but here as well, explained themselves a bit better!!
communication gone out the window!! if it was ever inside the window....
perhaps its just **** media saying what they want instead of what's wanted to be said
oh god sometimes I think people are just round the bend
I'm supposed to be the nuts one and yet sometimes I feel its the rest of the world that's mad!!!
Date: Tue Nov 18 12:20 AM, 2014
yeh anyway, talk of taking a simple gesture completely out of the context it was meant in.
yeh the lyrics suck....... maybe they could of got someone living in Africa to write it... hmm now theres an idea....
but blimey, its just a bit of dosh to help. we're being made to feel we've done something wrong.
I blame the media for not airing the whole debate here. surely there's more to it than this.......
Date: Tue Nov 18 8:25 AM, 2014
I hear the argument that short term fix is only papering over the cracks and making the countries concerned become more dependent. Doesn't hold up. This is a crisis and a crisis has to be addressed as an emergency and dealt with. These people are not doing their research and finding that Geldof is also doing much work to campaign for long term change etc.
I'm sure there are many ways the whole project could be criticised, academically. I'm not looking for them. The most important important thing is getting equipment and health workers etc out there needed to eradicate Ebola. That far outweighs anything else.
People forget he was ASKED to do this by the UN.
Jules, could you possibly send me any links you have to Bob's longer term projects for change in Africa?
its pretty frustrating all round here, I think, this dire lack of communication presented to us by the media...
I've long thought countries should be more self sufficient including us and Africa, so Africa can feed itself instead of exporting where people go hungry, poor etc. etc.
charity I would of thought could help in setting up self sufficient communities....
and btw I'm sorry if I was ranting when I posted above comments, I was rattled. rattled by this hopelessly dire level of communication...... hmmmm.
Africa feed itself.
England feed itself.
anyway, they are my thoughts, and perhaps they are akin to some Africans.... there's always conflict of interest in any country.
but what would be the fairest situation of all I wonder?
too much interdependency I've said it time and time again.
Keynes thought the same during the latter part of his life.
So, btw I wasn't drinking at all last night. I make that comment because someone mentioned they always assume I am drunk on here. I'm afraid its just my way sober lol - I rarely drink when I am on here. once in a blue moon.
cheers ladies.
also seems to be going around everywhere about Geldof tax dodging
its just seems to me he'd get less flack if he did sweet FA and didn't seem to possibly give a siht.
Not sure I have any links, but he's campaigned and lobbied governments on policy change. That's long term. Band Aid funds hospitals and schools etc, which are long term local projects.
Live 8 wasn't about short term measures. It was about long term change. You'd be right about him getting less flack if he didn't care, didn't bother and did nothing. I'm banning people left right and centre of FB. Most of it is nastiness for the sake of it, with no argument behind if obscured facts.
Joan of arc style posting going on here. He's involved in the One campaign. That's also about changing policy in the long term.
Date: Fri Nov 21 5:13 PM, 2014
I'm banning people left right and centre of FB. Most of it is nastiness for the sake of it, with no argument behind if obscured facts.
Ah, so glad the Band Aid/Live Aid/Live 8 forum is hidden away these days. Saves me a whole lot of unnecessary bother.
JoanOfArc wrote:
Bl00dy hell, if England has to feed itself, we'd all starve. UK imports more than 40% of the total food consumed. We spend close to £20bn on food imports. It is envisaged that in 20 years time that without significant increases in yield that Britain will face food shortages as those countries that export will have less to export due to their own indigenous demands.
Most of the arguments lack substance and kind of fact. They've been reading too many tabloids. DON'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU READ.
Date: Sun Nov 23 7:24 PM, 2014
No 1 in 69 countries including the UK.
Arrgee, you're right that we rely heavily on food imports. however, I read that we would only have to use 20% of UK arable land for vegan crops to feed our entire uk population self sufficiently. presumably this should leave enough land if we were to eat animal produce too, to do this with.
there's also this: In 1975, the Scottish ecologist Kenneth Mellanby wrote a short book called Can Britain Feed Itself? His answer was yes, if we eat less meat. The way in which he worked it out was simple, almost a back of the envelope job, but it provides a useful template for making similar calculations. In this article I have adapted and embellished Mellanbys basic diet to show how much land modern UK agriculture might require to produce the food we need under six different agricultural regimes chemical, organic and permacultural, each with or without livestock.
http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/can-britain-feed-itself
thank for your posts Jules in Joanofarc style lolol
its good to hear about his campaigns for longer term change
I have to say how saddend I am by the hateful remarks by some people on fb :(
and I certainly don't desire any political thought that doesn't start from the heart
Date: Sun Nov 23 10:17 PM, 2014
In 1975, the Scottish ecologist Kenneth Mellanby wrote a short book called Can Britain Feed Itself? His answer was yes, if we eat less meat...
But that was about 40 years ago. The population is bigger and there is less land available for growing crops. People barely cook properly these days living on processed food. I am sure that if everyone ate mung beans we could, but by then the economy would have totally collapsed which seems to be hope of this site if you read the other pages. I don't know about you and Mr. Away with the Fairies, who wrote the article but i ain't fcuking living in a yurt eating rice and weeds.
ArrGee you don't need to live in a yurt
But talking of madness:
livinginamadhouse.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/could-britain-be-self-sufficient-in-food/
In the Long Grass
Date: Fri Dec 12 9:16 AM, 2014
Been thinking about this. Appreciate it was a few weeks ago now and sales will have dropped off (no idea what recent CD issue sales are but suspect it's a tiny fraction of the initial downloads) but it's set me wondering about the role radio has to play in all this.
Do radio stations have a responsibility to reflect public trend, or do they reserve the right to influence it?
The reason I say that is in the month since release I've not heard Capital Radio play the track once. Admittedly it's one station only (maybe not indicative??) and I'm not listening all day, but surely a station playlist includes songs throughout day, and in the breakfast period I've yet to hear it.
If a song is taken to number one by the purchasing public, isn't controversial or offensive, regardless of whether you like it or not it should surely be played, imho.
Over the years numerous tracks have defied the odds and current fashion to capture enough interest to sell in huge numbers and force their way to top of charts, and they've been played even though many people might ridicule them (all the novelty hits spring to mind). Seems like the balance of power has shifted to radio controllers nowadays, in other words 'if it ain't what we think you should be hearing we ain't promoting it'.
I find that quite sad. I realise they are many 'alternative' stations and associated 'alternative' charts, but official charts are just packed with homogenous hand picked acts.
On the odd occasion a song that doesn't 'fit' shifts millions of units, surely the radio stations have ot concede the public like it, and include it in schedules.
Doubly sad for this song that it's not getting recognition, given what it stands for, even if it's nowhere near the best Band Aid version, let alone best song.....
Are any stations playing this song regularly?
Mondo Bongo
Date: Fri Dec 12 11:00 AM, 2014
suss wrote:
Yes, Radio 1!
It's not been played on Absolute Radio and I've only heard the original version on my local Jack FM. If it's being played on Radio One it looks like there is a target audience of the under 25s? Is that the case or is that the other stations just aren't behind it?
Date: Fri Dec 12 12:28 PM, 2014
Well I am slightly over 25 ...
Ha, yes but you obviously enjoy listening to young people's radio. Probably in the minority .
Date: Fri Dec 12 1:19 PM, 2014
Well it's all relative - I just have such a boring, mundane job/life/existence that it's only alleviated by inflicting pain on myself, and I'm not brave enough to stick pins in my eyes! And also just too lazy to tune into a different station. But if it gets too bad - even for me - then I have the satisfaction of showing that I can take control of a situation, and then I switch it off! On the plus side I do get to hear the Band Aid 30 song ...
But yes, I guess I am in the minority, just one of a kind you could say
Date: Sat Dec 13 11:19 AM, 2014
I long ago decamped to Radio 2 where the song has been getting lots of airplay.
At least the BBC are behind the song. That covers a wide audience on 1 and 2. .
Date: Sat Dec 13 3:10 PM, 2014
That's good to hear. Just makes it all the more shameful for the station(s) that seem to think they have the right to choose, especially when any defence is shredded by fact they play rest of top 10 incessantly.
Just snobbery really!
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Chemical companies newly rated by Moody’s Investors Service over the last 18 months will likely miss their 2017 targets because of slow growth in some of their end markets. The outlook is part of a report by the ratings agency, which looked at the 38 chemical companies it rated from January 2013 to May 2017.
Moody’s typically rates companies when they get new owners and they want to issue debt. This gives the report a somewhat limited sample pool since it is made up of only about a third of the rated companies, many of which are businesses that other rated companies wanted to divest.
However, the report still illustrates how slow growth has manifested itself among many different chemical companies and their end markets.
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DuBois Chemicals produces a variety of chemicals for industrial end markets, including metal-working fluids, at a time when industrial activity has not been great, he said.
ANGUS Chemical make paint additives, and Versum Materials makes electronic chemicals. The markets for both of these products are in rather late economic cycles. Other companies in the report are exposed to commodities.
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This has been an ongoing pattern among chemical companies newly rated by Moody’s.
Among the eight that were rated in 2015, they were nearly 30% short of their own 2016 targets for earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA), Moody’s said.
The new issuers in 2014 missed their 2015 EBITDA targets by 13%. The 2013 new issuers missed their 2014 targets by 11%.
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For example, Axalta Coating System recently acquired the North American industrial wood-coatings business of Valspar, a deal first announced in April.
“Financing costs for lower-rated new chemical companies are not back to what they were in 2014 and I don’t think investors are as exuberant as they were in 2014 when we saw more very low rated deals”, Nelson said. “You may see businesses that come out of the mega-deals that are big enough for private equity firms to take an interest, but they might end up with a strategic anyhow.”
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School visits take place between mid-September and early December. The schedule is managed online on this closed website to provide you – our members – with all the information you need to participate. Under no circumstances are member institutions allowed to share access to this website, or share any of the information on this website with individuals or institutions who are not members of PSBC. All member institutions and their representatives are also expected to abide by the regulations governing the appropriate use of data, per CASL, as outlined in the PSBC Code of Conduct.
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Do or die for Colombia as they face Ecuador in World Cup qualifying
by Stephen Gill March 27, 2017
Colombia’s national soccer team face a crucial assignment on Tuesday as they travel to Ecuador to continue their World Cup qualification bid for Russia 2018.
“Los Cafeteros” are currently placed fourth in the CONMEBOL, South American section of qualifying on 21 points just one point ahead of their neighbors Ecuador.
Colombia narrowly defeated Bolivia in Barranquilla last Thursday with a late rebound from a missed James Rodriguez penalty saving their blushes, the win however crucially lifted them into the automatic qualification places.
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In the aftermath of their impressive 2014 World Cup run, coach Jose Pekerman claimed that the time had come for them to take their place at football’s “top table.”
However, his side have struggled to maintain the consistency that brought them to the dizzy heights of the last eight in the World Cup with the manager failing to settle on a balanced starting XI in this campaign in particular.
The team that beat Bolivia 1-0 showed seven changes from the previous game against Brazil, which showed seven changes from the game before that against Argentina.
“We have to adjust some details to play better. Nevertheless, we can make a difference; it will be complicated, but to win is the idea,” said striker Duvan Zapata acknowledging their continued search for a balanced XI.
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With run away leaders Brazil all but qualified with 30 points already, Tuesday’s game in Quito will be crucial in defining the race to join them with Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Chile separated by just 3 points.
The Colombian players are under no illusions about the magnitude of the task that faces them at the hostile Estadio Olimpico Atahualpa, which sits at 2,782 meters above the sea-level.
“I think we should be well-prepared. It will be very important to manage the defensive unit. We know they are very fast, strong and we must counter that, said attacking midfielder Juan Cuadrado, reported El Tiempo.
Former Ecuador captain Alex Aguinaga also admitted that the stakes are high viewing the showdown between the Andean rivals as a defining moment in the campaign.
“This game against Colombia will define the future of the Ecuador in qualifying,” said the 109 cap former midfielder to ESPN.
Colombia defeat neighbors Ecuador 3-1 in World Cup qualifier
Colombia won the corresponding fixture last March on a 3-1 scoreline bringing their recent record against Ecuador to 5 wins in 6 games, but notably all were on home soil.
Gustavo Quinteros’ Ecuador are unbeaten in the last four qualifiers at home to Colombia, winning two, drawing two with their opponents failing to score in four of their last six visits to Quito.
A victory for Colombia would be the first since October 1996, when a Faustino Asprilla goal gave them a 0-1 victory in the Ecuadorian capital.
The game kicks off on Tuesday at 4pm Colombia time.
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Maisie Williams Talks ‘New Mutants’ Rumors, ‘Would Absolutely Love’ to Play Wolfsbane
Just last month, a big rumor suggested that Josh Boone’s New Mutants movie was eyeing Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams and The Witch breakout Anya Taylor-Joy to star in the X-Men spinoff, with Alexandra Shipp in talks to reprise her role as young Storm from Apocalypse. Fox has predictably denied these rumors, Williams herself sorta-kinda confirms it in a new interview, though it sounds like nothing is close to official as of yet.
While speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Williams was asked about the rumor that she’s being eyed for the role of Wolfsbane in New Mutants. Right out of the gate, the Game of Thrones star says she can’t talk about it, which is a pretty clear indicator that there’s some truth to that rumor:
I can’t say much about it at all, but I would absolutely love to be a part of it, [and] to be a part of the Marvel family. New Mutants looks absolutely incredible and I’ve always loved the idea of spin-offs and [director] Joshua Boone is incredibly talented. So, yeah, sign me up.
Boone previously directed The Fault in Our Stars and has been developing an ambitious adaptation of The Stand, which recently stalled out due to a rights issue. In the meantime, he’s prepping an adaptation of another Stephen King novel, Revival, and is working on New Mutants for Fox. The studio has yet to confirm that Boone will direct in addition to scripting the X-Men spinoff, which will introduce a younger set of mutant characters — and if the rumor of Storm’s involvement is any indication, we may see a couple of familiar faces, too.
Source: Maisie Williams Talks ‘New Mutants’ Rumors, ‘Would Absolutely Love’ to Play Wolfsbane
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‘Walking Dead’ Season 7 Taking Extra Precaution to Keep Finale Death Hidden
Among the many questions (and blind rage) coursing through The Walking Dead fans after Sunday’s cliffhanger end to Season 6, many wonder how the AMC horror drama intends to keep its big death under wraps from prying eyes on the set. Now, producers reveal that even the cast remains in the dark, promising to take extra precaution to preserve Season 7 secrecy.
You’re warned of full spoilers for The Walking Dead Season 6 finale from here on out, but where the first person perspective of Negan’s violent attack obscured any chance of identifying the victim, one has to to wonder how Season 7 might keep things under wraps, between outdoor shoots, absent cast members, actors taking new projects, or a trailer presumably due at Comic-Con 2016. Executive producer Scott Gimple spoke with reporters at length on the finale, explaining that while no one actually filmed a death scene, he’d known for some time the likely target.
Andrew Lincoln even revealed that the cast made a pact not to learn the imminently departed among them, but how might Gimple keep things under wraps, given eagle-eyed fans?
We are doing our best in all those areas. It is very, very difficult nowadays … That said, we are working very hard to put things in place hopefully to protect it … We are going to try to protect the secret of this and to protect the audience’s experience. I sure hope it doesn’t leak but the world is what the world is.
The showrunner also admitted that while the finale left certain clues as to who might fall under Negan’s bat, no one would necessarily figure it out by evidence alone:
I believe there is no way. There are a couple of things in there that might help people possibly limit the amount of people who are vulnerable. But I will recommend people not to go down that route. I truly don’t think there’s a way to puzzle it all out definitively.
Filming on Season 7 will likely begin as early as May, putting Gimple’s words to the test, but will the final reveal prove worth the potential backlash? What further tricks might The Walking Dead pull out to keep fans in the dark?
Source: ‘Walking Dead’ Season 7 Taking Extra Precaution to Keep Finale Death Hidden
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My path to being an advertising ‘creative’ – by Rohit Tharakan
“Being a creative has its ups and downs, but, it can be a really exciting career. It allows you to really push, pull, and stretch your imagination as far as it can go.” Rohit’s dream was to work in advertising and with a bit of help from Creative Access, that dream became a reality…
I work in advertising as a ‘creative’.
My mum will tell you I’m a graphic designer.
My dad will tell you I’m not a doctor.
And my friends will tell you I’m the devil and the reason they all have Ad Blocker.
What the hell is a “creative”?
This rather pretentious sounding title is indeed a real career. The creative’s job is to solve the client’s business problems. Whether it’s creating a TV ad to increase sales or a social campaign for brand awareness, they use imaginative thinking to help the client.
Creatives typically come in a team of two; an Art Director and a Copywriter. Art Directors are responsible for the visuals and overall look and feel of a campaign, whereas the Copywriter concentrates on the written elements like writing the scripts, headlines, etc. From brainstorming ideas to working on shoots, Art Directors and Copywriters work insanely close together. We’re almost joined to the hip, like those twins from The Shining except with nose piercings and the occasional face tattoo.
Working at Ogilvy
I work for Ogilvy London as a Junior Copywriter.
It’s not a bad place to call your office. Situated by the River Thames, the view alone is absolutely gorgeous.
I mean, it’s easily better than my current office, working from home in a house share of six tenants and one working toilet.
But make no mistake, the office can be a very dangerous place. Like Ogilvy, most ad agencies are notorious for being dog friendly so make sure you’re ready for any of these fluffy hounds trying to maul you into a 15-minute belly rub.
Here’s a picture of me next to a dangerous beast I’ve managed to overpower with my bulging muscles and fearfully intimidating energy.
How I got into advertising
Ironically advertising is one of the least advertised careers out there, so it was only once I started my psychology degree at university where I finally stumbled upon it. And by that point, I was in so much student debt it made no sense to drop out.
My journey into advertising was long. Instead of spending more money to go to Ad school, I started a well-balanced diet of poorly paid internships and sleeping on as many friends’ floors and sofas as possible, whilst slowly assembling a portfolio. It was a friend who recommended Creative Access to me and Anoushka from the Creative Access team kindly prepared me for some of the internships I was applying for.
I was desperate to become a creative in advertising because, in all honesty, it’s a very fun career where you are literally daydreaming silly or thrilling ideas and thinking of new innovative ways to get people to listen to you. Here’s an example of some work we created for Argos. We made these Spotify ads that targeted what type of music you were listening to, which fortunately won us an award and got us featured in Campaign Magazine.
Diversity in advertising
Advertising is an amazing industry filled with the most talented people you’ll ever meet. However, when it comes to diversity, particularly within creative departments, we’re very much behind. Luckily the industry has recognised this and now there are more schemes trying to open the doors to people from different backgrounds. One of these is ‘The Pipe’ from Ogilvy, which is a brilliant way to fast track your career into the ad industry.
Getting into advertising
Being a creative has its ups and downs, but, it can be a really exciting career. It allows you to really push, pull, and stretch your imagination as far as it can go.
Your qualifications really don’t matter in this job, what matters is your passion to solve problems with innovative thinking. After all, it definitely beats staring at a spreadsheet all day (ew).
You can follow Rohit on Instagram: @rohittharakan.
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Cenk Uygur Reveals That Roger Ailes’ ‘Black Room’ Enemies Ops Were Known To MSNBC
The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur, has revealed that in 2011, when he was on MSNBC, he was warned by that network to be careful in what he said about Fox News because of its “black room” operations.
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The Boys Season 2: Dark Black Has A Bigger Role In The Upcoming Season On Prime
Hrishkesh Singh
March 7, 2020 9:00 am EST
The Boys Season 2: Dark Black Has A Bigger Role
Last year, Amazon Prime Video premiered the superhero series “The Boys,” which was a real surprise for critics and fans. A proposal that took some licenses with respect to the original Garth Ennis comic but ended up offering a very interesting product.
Like any adaptation, changes had to be made, and one of them was to dispense with the faithful companion of Butcher, the character played by Karl Urban. We talk about his dog Terror, who accompanies Carnicero throughout the comic and in the series only appears in a flashback and without anything of importance.
However, his absence will be corrected from the second season, as Karl Urban has revealed in C2E2 this weekend that the dog will make his debut.
In the event, they were also asked about the character of Dark Black ( Black Noir ), who did not play a particularly large role in the first season, in addition to remaining a true mystery.
Kripke has also confirmed that Patton Oswalt will also join the cast in an undisclosed role. He announced the news via a selfie on Twitter
So what could be this secret role? While Oswalt’s character is still a mystery, Deadhard fans suspect he may play the role of The Legend, a former comic book writer who uses his enlightening knowledge of superheroes against him. Looks like it will be useful for boys.
We do not know if the second season will reveal to us the identity of who is under the mask, something that is discovered in the comics, but the cast promises that it will be one of the characters with the greatest presence in the second season.
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The second season of the series is underway, we have even been able to see some progress in these months, such as an official first trailer, and although there is still no officially announced release date, its premiere is expected for summer.
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The Emotional Brain: An Introduction to Affective Neuroscience With Brian Knutson, Ph.D. - $ 250.00
Emotions color our everyday individual existence and shape all aspects of our interpersonal and intellectual experiences. In this film, animations and fMRI images introduce students to what we now know about the sub-cortical emotional circuits in the brain and chemical processes that produce our emotional responses and contribute to our decision making and mental health. Live action sequences, both in laboratory and real life situations, illustrate Dr. Knutson's research on risk taking and provide intriguing examples of the factors involved in the interplay of affect and reason in making choices
"The Emotional Brain provides an engaging introduction to some of the most exciting questions in modern neuroscience: How does our brain generate the complex, subjective feelings and physiological states that make up our emotional lives? The film is written and narrated by Dr. Brian Knutson (Stanford University), a leading scientist in this emerging field. Knutson walks viewers through key concepts and experimental results in a straightforward and jargon-minimizing manner. Rather than try to cover the breadth of affective neuroscience in a single movie – an impossible goal – he selects a few important examples and describes them in terms of simpler metaphors appropriate for classroom instruction. This approach tends more to generate questions than to provide definitive answers, and thus the video serves a quick and interesting starting point for in-class discussions or further exploration of the emotional brain."
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Dil Chahta Hai (दिल चाहता है)
📅 2011-Aug-06 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ aamir khan, akshaye khanna, farhan akhtar, hindi, movie, preity zinta, saif ali khan ⬩ 📚 Archive
"Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going" said Tennesse Williams. Dil Chahta Hai (दिल चाहता है) was released 10 years ago in 2001 when me and my friends were (finally!) at the end of our college days and our futures looked bright and happy. Colored by that lens, Dil Chahta Hai, or DCH as we came to call it, became the definitive movie for a lot of us. I watched DCH again recently and it was quite a different experience, though I could clearly see why DCH had felt like our movie in the past.
Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan and Akshaye Khanna play three rich kids caught in that carerfree twilight zone between college and real life. Aaamir is a prankster who is aloof of love. Saif is innocent and confused about love. Akshaye is the serious type and has fallen in love with an older woman. After a memorable Goa trip, the trio have a spat and Aamir moves away to Australia. Real life catches up with him and he discovers love in Preity Zinta, but is not able to express it. Predictably, his friends return to help him in the act.
Dil Chahta Hai was the debut for director (and now actor) Farhan Akhtar. Though dealing with a standard story, it is told remarkably well with flashbacks. Acting and cinematography are good, but the best memories from this movie are its music. Songs by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, spun around the poignant poetry of Javed Akhtar. Though Koi Kahe Kehta Rahe gets all the airplay, I personally love the depth of the lyrics in Dil Chahta Hai and Tanhayee. I only need to listen to the title track to open the dam of memories of carefree college days. Chamkeele Din indeed! 😐 In the 10 years since DCH, what has not really aged well is the length of the movie. At 3 hours, it now seems tortuously slow and unnecessarily long drawn out. Farhan should probably create a shorter director's cut edition sometime. In the year of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, a quarter-life-crisis-movie by Farhan's sister, Dil Chahta Hai still remains a good movie to recollect those times! 😁
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How we updated our values (whilst being side-swiped by COVID-19) – Part 2
Scott Rogers
Product (special sauce) additive. Thinker and creator. Most comfortable with sleeves rolled up.
This is a multi-part series about how we updated our Values. In Part 1, Adam wrote about how everyone at Cogent had a voice in refining our set of values, and how some values were retained, others slightly modified, and one new value was added. Cogent’s next chapter would be underpinned by five values:
Meaning as a value came through as one of the most important to our team, but its definition was the most ambiguous. In this blog, I’ll talk about how we went about implementing Meaning, just as COVID-19 was thrust upon us!
5 Steps We Took To Implement Our Meaning Value
Step 1: Define the outcome
Values have a strategic priority at Cogent, and in order to make our work visible to the wider company, we developed a strategic theme called ‘Live our Values’. A team was established to manage this priority and we reviewed progress at fortnightly strategy meetings. The Live our Values strategic priority was one of four business-wide priorities, and with at least a quarter of the entire focus of the business, its importance was clear.
After some further thinking and discussion, our priority was set:
Deeply embed and live our value of Meaning into the DNA of Cogent alongside our other values.
We already use CultureAmp to understand how staff think about Cogent’s commitment to its values, so we decided to measure success by a >90% score for Meaning. A lofty goal indeed!
Step 2: Understand what Cogent’s values mean to our people
Our values don’t exist in isolation from one another and given we had just completed a refresh we wanted to understand what Cogent’s new values meant to our people. We wanted everyone to have the opportunity to have their questions answered and thoughts expressed.
As a company of mostly remote people working for clients across Melbourne, giving everyone the opportunity to engage meant we took a remote-first approach. We established a series of deeper conversations, held over a two week period. These were open sessions dedicated to each value, hosted by the Live our Values team that anyone in the company could join – to simply listen, voice thoughts, ask questions or participate in the discussion. There was no agenda; we were happy to take the conversations wherever it needed to go. A Slack channel was set up and each session was recorded so that anyone could asynchronously engage with the conversation.
Step 3: Explore what Meaning means to our people
Stories are a powerful way to understand people’s motivations, psychology and emotions. We were interested to get to the core of why people do what they do. We thought that by exploring what projects people have found meaningful, it would help us to craft a definition of Meaning for Cogent.
Throughout November we asked People Managers to chat to their teams to elicit stories of meaningful work. As this was new territory for everyone, Kath developed an interview script to help scaffold the conversation. The conversations were recorded and transcribed for analysis by the team. Everybody in the company participated, leading to a deep understanding of each other and what is meaningful for Cogent people when it comes to working. We treated these stories as gifts; we were grateful for everyone’s openness and willingness to share.
Areas of influence and topics
The diversity of topics was broad, and we realised we could plot the topics based on influence covering 5 main areas: Me, Team, Cogent, Clients, Impact/World/Users. Within these areas of influence, we defined many themes that would form the basis of ideation.
We did a short pulse survey that showed our current score was sitting at 65%, the lowest score for any of our values. We had a long way to go but we were confident that a 90% score by the end of the financial year was an achievable stretch.
Our data set was rich. We were blown away at the depth of data that we had at our disposal. We talked about our findings at our Christmas Company Meeting and were now ready to figure out how we could embed Meaning into the DNA of Cogent when we returned from our Summer break.
Step 4: Ideate and execute in parallel
There was no doubt that the team were excited about what we had learned prior to Christmas. We had ideas swirling around our minds, and ideas were coming in from others in the company. Since our people were so integral to each step along the way, we made sure to give frequent updates about our progress. We had a simple comms plan, but we also wanted to show that tangible progress was being made as a result of their involvement.
Throughout January and February, we continued to talk about our progress at company-wide meetings. We developed a Values Manifesto. Initially an internal document, it’s now published on our website for everyone to see and helps showcase what it’s like to work at Cogent.
In parallel to the frequent comms and the creation of the Values Manifesto, we explored the themes and ideas on how to embed Meaning – this is always the fun part. We ran workshops to explore all that we’d learned, to brainstorm ideas and figure out what to focus on, what to throw out and how we might actually get it all done.
At the time we were looking at the Live our Values strategic theme, another team within Cogent was exploring the social impact sector, and we realised the obvious overlap. We felt like we really were living our value of Meaning and that even while we were still ideating new ways to embed Meaning, it felt embedded and it felt like we were living it.
Step 5: Adapt!
Then COVID-19 hit. We had only just completed our ideation phase, but our approach to parallel doing and thinking proved beneficial as the outside influence of COVID-19 became more and more real.
Strategic priorities were re-assessed to make sure they were relevant to our new circumstances. ‘Live our Values’ was as relevant as ever. What needed to change, however, was our focus. We changed tact and brought attention to Wellbeing. The whole company was working remotely, and the impact on personal and work lives needed to take centre stage. The objective of our team shifted to ensuring our people felt support by Cogent during these challenging times.
The importance of Meaning didn’t go away. Now, more than ever, Cogent wanted to do all we could to help. A new strategic priority was established to Make a Difference. Our many years of work in the health and social impact sector would help create opportunities for Cogent to be involved in some incredibly meaningful work. And we knew that Cogent people would jump at the chance to work in this space.
Values really do underpin our work at Cogent. Meaning as a value guides the work we do and the way we go about it – just like the values of an organisation should.
We’re currently working alongside a world-first taskforce who synthesize COVID-19 research and data, to deliver up-to-date, evidence-based guidance to front line healthcare professionals. We’re also working with Smiling Mind who provide tools to support mental health, particularly in young people. The use of their app has increased by over 165% during the pandemic, and we’re helping them develop a mindfulness education platform to be used in schools across the country. You can hear more about this in our Cogent Conversations COVID-19 mini-series episode with Sarah La Roche, their COO.
Implementing and embedding Meaning has become very tangible, just not in the way we expected it might.
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How to Do a Science Fair Project: Get Your Idea and Do Some Research
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Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory give tips on how to come up with a unique idea for a science fair project. In this segment, they encourage students to look around and ask questions about what they see. This can include observations about patterns, shapes, and behaviors. Part of the “How to Do a Science Fair Project” series.
Subtopic: Science Experiments, Science Methods
Producer/Distributor: NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
Series: How to Do a Science Fair Project
Instructor Guide Web Page
How to Do a Science Fair Project
How to Do a Science Fair Project: Overview
How to Do a Science Fair Project: Ask a Testable Question
How to Do a Science Fair Project: Design and Conduct Your Experiment
How to Do a Science Fair Project: Examine Your Results
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GDOT – expect ‘Big Delays’
Dan Whisenhunt Mar 28, 2014
Atlanta Downtown Connector. Source: Wikimedia commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlanta_75.85.jpg
Atlanta Downtown Connector. Source: Wikimedia commons
The Georgia Department of Transportation has a big to-do list this weekend and is warning drivers to find alternate routes around some of the construction area.
According to GDOT, workers will begin replacing overhead signs for the I-285-Georgia 400 interchange at 10 pm Friday, March 28. The work will take place on I-85 southbound starting a half mile north of Clairmont Road to North Druid Hills Road. GDOT will close four left lanes from midnight to 7 am on Saturday, March 29, and Sunday, March 30, and midnight to 5 am on Monday, March 31. GDOT says the triple closures will also be in the left lanes and will remain in place throughout Saturday and Sunday.
“We apologize for the delays and there will be big delays,” District Construction Engineer Shun Pringle said in a press release. “We understand that this is a Spring Break weekend for some folks but so are the next three or four weekends. This work has to happen for the project to move forward so anyone planning to go south on I-85 through that area, call 511 or look at a mapping web site before you leave home. Simply put, find an alternate route or expect very slow traffic.”
Other GDOT projects for the weekend of March 28 through March 30 include:
– A double left lane closure on Georgia 400 southbound from Wieuca Road to Sidney Marcus Boulevard from 10 pm Friday, March 28, and Saturday, March 29, until noon the following day. The work will allow MARTA to continue removing a pedestrian bridge in the area.
– There will be triple left lane closures on I-285 in both directions between Cobb Parkway and Peachtree Dunwoody Road. The closures are for sign replacements. The closures will be in place from 9 pm to 5 am. All lanes will be open during the day.
– There will be work on I-20 in Douglas County, and GDOT will close two left lanes in both directions between Liberty Road and State Route 5 from 8 pm until 8 am. The work is to allow workers to install concrete slab replacements.
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Unrecognized states
State-like entities that have achieved de facto independence.
Donetsk People’s Republic
Luhansk People’s Republic
Land claimed by at least two states or with a curious border.
Bajo Nueva Bank
Chagos Archipelago
Conejo Island
Corisco Bay
Fergana Valley
Greater and Lesser Tunbs
Hans Island
Ilha Brasileira
Kuril Islands
Liancourt Rocks
Machias Seal Island
Migingo Island
Pratas Islands
Senkaku Islands
Terrestrial Triangle
The Black Hills
Entities founded in an attempt to claim autonomy.
Aerican Empire
Aeterna Lucina
Akhzivland
AVL-Ville
Boon Island
Calexit
Elgaland-Vargaland
EnenKio
Eurostaete
Glacier Republic
Great Bitter Lake
Hakkelaarsbrug
Hutt River
Kingdom of Lovely
Llhuros
Molossia
M’Simbati
Naminara
North Dumpling Island
Talossa
Užupis
Westarctica
Yidindji
Terminated 18 June 1972
The Minerva reefs are two atolls in the Pacific Ocean and are located south of Fiji and Tonga. They lie below sea level and were discovered when the Rosalia shipwrecked there in 1807. Another shipwreck, the whaleship Minerva, gave its name to the reefs. In the early 1970s libertarian millionaire Michael J. Oliver erected the Ocean Life Research Foundation and reclaimed the reefs from the sea with tons of sand shipped in from Australia, he planned to build a resort there, Sea City, based upon libertarian principles: ‘no taxation, welfare, subsidies, or any form of economic interventionism’. He declared the independence of the Republic of Minerva in 1972, but this was not accepted by Tonga, the rightful owner of the reefs according to the South Pacific Forum. Ten years later another group of Americans made another attempt to claim the reefs but they were forced off by Tongan forces. Now the reefs are ‘more or less reclaimed by the sea’.
Libertarian Sea-Nations Have a Long History of Washing Up
The libertarian sea state isn’t unprecedented, but a successful one would be.
Failed republic
It is a truth universally acknowledged: a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a lawless micronation in which to stash it away.
J.R. Hennesy
The Curious History of the Minerva Reefs
Lili Song of the University of Otago (New Zealand) explores the historical events relating to the competing claims over the Minerva Reefs by Tonga and Fiji.
The Journal of Pacific history
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‘We can’t have people setting up empires on our doorstep,’ the prince of Tonga once said about the Republic of Minerva
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Taiwan, officially the Republic of China, is a de facto island state in the East Chinese Sea. The People’s Republic of China has consistently claimed sovereignty over Taiwan and refuses diplomatic relations with any country that recognizes this republic. Taiwan is the 22nd-largest economy in the world, and its high-tech industry plays a key role in the global economy, it is unrecognized by most member states of the United Nations. Still, many countries maintain unofficial ties with Taiwan through representative offices and institutions that function as de facto embassies and consulates.
The Falkland Islands, or The Malvinas as they are called in Argentina, lie 480 km off the Patagonian shore in the South Atlantic Ocean. They were named by captain John Strong, who landed on them in 1690. There are two main islands, West and East Falkland and about 776 smaller ones. They have been officially under British control since 1771, but this is contested by Argentina, who laid a claim when they gained independence from Spain in 1816. This dispute resulted in a war between the two countries in 1982 in which 900 people were killed. Argentina surrendered after 74 days and since then the islands status as Overseas British Territory remains.
Originally founded in 1977 as the Grand Republic of Vuldstein, The Republic of Molossia is a micronation run by Kevin Baugh. It lies just outside Virginia City, Nevada in the western United States. It is run humorously as a dictatorial banana-republic with Baugh operating as president. Kevin Baugh continues to pay property taxes on the land although he calls it ‘foreign aid’.
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First Impressions: Resident Evil 4 (Nintendo Gamecube)
Matt Yeager | January 12, 2005 | Archive, Previews | No Comments
As a fan of the series there’s just something satisfying about waiting in anticipation for the game to be released then booting the game up to hear that deep voice say “Resident Evil Four“. You’ve got to give the guy who does the voice credit for being able to make the number four sound like something you’d be afraid to meet in a dark alley. But it’s one of the staples of the Resident Evil series and gets you back into the zombie killing mood. Except there are no zombies this time around…
Right away the game explains some of the background of what happened in Racoon City and the Umbrella Corporation, and then explains that six years have passed. The story moves on to Leon Kennedy, the rookie cop from Resident Evil 2, who is now a government agent looking for the Presidents missing daughter in some remote European location. Leon with two other local law officers stop near a village to ask is anyone has seen the girl, and that’s when all hell breaks loose.
That’s also when you get to take over control of Leon, and when you’ll start noticing some of the major differences to the game. For one thing, now you don’t have to worry about some of the crappy fixed camera angles, the camera follows Leon from a third person perspective right at the back of his head. You can move the camera around with the C stick as well. Holding down R draws whatever weapon you have equipped, Leon starts with a Handgun. He also always has a knife that can be quickly drawn out by holding the L button. When the handgun is drawn the camera perspective zooms in closer and the handgun has a laser sight to aim with.
Another immediate difference is the enemies you’ll face. No more zombies, now you’ve got villagers to fight. I know what your thinking, fighting a bunch of Europeans? What kind of challenge is that? These are no ordinary villagers though, something you’ll notice when you shoot a couple of rounds into one of them and they still keep getting up. Or how after you kill them they’ll melt like a barbie in the microwave. These super freaks are not only hard to kill but unlike the zombies of the past games these guys think. They’ll comes in groups, some will run, others will duck when you shoot at them, many will have weapons and some will throw those weapons at you (including explosives). While I was originally diappointed that there wasn’t going to be any zombies I’m glad they made this change because fighting a horde of these freaky villagers is intense. The new camera and aiming system makes the battle more fun and stategic as well since you can now damage body parts. Have a group of villagers running at you? Shoot them in the knees. A guy getting ready to through a stick of dynamite at you? Blow it up in his hands and watch the carnage. Speaking of carnage, one thing that is back in the game is the ability to blow off a head off of someones shoulders, though watch out, sometime the headless body will still attack you. Believe me this game has earned it’s M rating.
The biggest difference in the game however is how it is more like an action game like Devil May Cry or Ninja Gaiden than an standard Resident Evil game. Like in those games you’ll face hordes of enemies and from their bodies gain ammo and health as well as items that can be used to upgrade your weapons later on. Instead of being stuck in a mansion or on an island you’ll be wandering through this village, and while there are linear paths there are also some open areas that you are encouraged to explore through. The game even is broken up in chapters like an action game. So far I’ve not encountered one ‘look for an armor key for the shield door’ part. In fact one of the things my friends and I have been complaining about since the first game was why we couldn’t just shoot the lock of the door or kick it in. I say a lock in Resident Evil 4, shot at it just for fun and it broke off! Ha!
Even with all of the changes the game still retains the atmosphere of the Resident Evil series and many of the familiar parts of the series are still in the game, like Green Herbs, the First Aid Spray and saving at the Typewriters (thankfully to don’t have to find ribbon this time). The story may not have the usual zombies or Umbrella Corp in it(at least not yet) but because of that the story is actually more interesting. There’s a mystery behind the village and what is happening and the game slowly reveals what is going on.
A review will be up shortly once we have spent more time with the game.
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Texas church shooting leaves pastor dead
The scene of a shooting at Starrville Methodist Church in Winona, Texas, on Sunday, January 3, 2021.
(CNN) — A man accused of killing a Texas church pastor Sunday had hidden from police in the church bathroom after a high-speed chase the night before, Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith said.
Police identified the suspect aMoreeDebatete Woolen, 21, who was charged with aggravated assault while exhibiting a deadly weapon, aggravated assault that caused serious bodily injury and capital murder in the first degree, according to a press release from the Bureau. Smith County Sheriff’s Office.
CNN has not been able to determine whether Woolen has legal representation.
The sheriff’s office identified the slain pastor as Mark Allen McWilliams, 62, of Frankston, Texas.
A persecution that ended in a Texas church
The incident began Saturday when the Lindale Police Department responded to multiple calls for service regarding a dark-colored Volkswagen Jetta. Agents received reports that a firearm had been displayed through the sunroof of the car, Smith said at a news conference Sunday night.
Shortly after, at 7:30 p.m., a Smith County agent spotted the suspect’s vehicle at a convenience store and tried to stop him, but the car sped away. Officers chased him down and were eventually joined by officers from the Texas Department of Public Safety, Smith said.
The vehicle was speeding, but one of its tires was a spare that gave out during the chase, causing the Jetta to crash into property near the Starrville Methodist Church in Winona, Smith said.
The car had been hit by a unit from the Texas Department of Public Safety, Smith said, causing the airbags to deploy. A shotgun was found in the vehicle, he said.
I surround the suspect
Smith said a perimeter was set up, with the help of a canine unit and drones, for several hours. Agents searched the woods for the suspect and found part of a shoe or boot believed to be wearing, Smith said.
The next morning, before 9:30 a.m., Smith County dispatchers received a call that there had been a shooting at the church.
“What we believe happened this morning is that the suspect backtracked on his way, after officers left the area, and came back out of the cold, entered through a broken window and entered the church,” Smith said Sunday. He “was still in the church bathroom with the door closed when the pastor or his wife … opened the door and met him.”
McWilliams was armed and was able to get the suspect to lie on the ground, Smith said.
“However, there was some confusion during that time. He made the suspect lie on the ground… the pastor got distracted… talking to his wife and the suspect pounced on him and was able to remove the firearm from his” Smith, ”Smith said.
Fatal shot
The suspect fatally shot the pastor, Smith said.
Two people were also injured, one from a gunshot wound and the other from a fall. The shooting victim was in surgery Sunday and his condition is unknown, Smith said. Smith described his injuries as non-life threatening.
The suspect later took one of the victims’ vehicles, Smith said, but the 2018 GMC truck was equipped with OnStar technology, which was used to track and then disable the vehicle.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott offered his condolences in a statement Sunday.
“Our hearts go out to the victims and families of those killed or injured in this terrible tragedy,” Abbott said.
“I am grateful for the law enforcement officers who detained the suspect and ask Texans to join Cecilia and me in praying for those affected by this horrific shooting. The state of Texas is working closely with emergency services and local officials to ensure that justice is served and that the Starrville community has the resources it needs during this time.
CNN’s Gregory Lemos contributed to this report.
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GE’s Lesson: Boards Mind Your Own Business
Boards need a bright line when it comes to how intrusive they should be in the C suite.
Anyone who has spent time in the boardroom recognizes that the description “potted plants” has little to do with horticulture. The media calls these ‘rubber stamp’ boards, and Google shows nearly 30 million results for this term. It’s a big problem, but not what you may be thinking.
Governance gurus believe complacent boards are the status quo. They trot out ex post facto accusations to blame directors for crises, even the unpredictable nature. The result is twofold: it provokes cynicism among business journalists who write for public consumption, but it also breeds mistrustfulness into the board/management relationship.
Unfortunately, society hears a dog whistle that every wrong turn or hiccup is a sign the C-Suite is out of control. The Enron debacle of 2001 activated a virulent strain of more intrusive corporate governance and, after the unanimous passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), there was no one willing to fight against the tide of increased regulation. Less than six years later, the collapse of Lehman Brothers led to the conclusion that SOX wasn’t enough, and the government prescribed Dodd-Frank, an overwrought 1,000 pages of regulation. Lost on the voting public was the fact that the Lehman board was not guilty. The reason the company fell into bankruptcy was government negligence, according to records analyzed by Lawrence Ball, chair of the Johns Hopkins Economics department, and author of The Fed and Lehman Brothers. Ball states: “the Fed could have rescued Lehman but chose not to because of political pressures.” And so it collapsed, bringing world financial markets down with it.
A higher than ‘good for us’ level of intrusion is going to be around for the foreseeable future. But the question remains, how much and when? Should board directors start meeting with rank-and-file employees to see if the CEO is popular? Or call up shareholder activists to make sure the company’s strategy is on target? It would be helpful to have some “big data” on how effective these measures are so that directors have a bright line they can follow.
After examining the facts, as inferior as a rubber stamp mentality may be, it is not nearly as detrimental as a board that sees itself as a counterweight to management by taking a regulatory mindset. The result of that will be stifling innovation and turning the CEO into a compliance-driven machine.
We do have a modern case study.
Throughout its history, GE set the Ivy League standard for board directors. Even today, its board includes such luminaries as the former CEOs of American Airlines, Loews, ConocoPhillips, and the FDIC. Each of the directors knows GE’s business nearly as well as their own. For most of GE’s history, they didn’t intrude in the affairs of management. According to the Wall Street Journal, the quote that inspired a change in personality was when a new director asked, “What is the role of a GE board member?” An older director volunteered: “Applause.”
He may as well have said, “Potted plant.”
former GE CEO Jeff Immelt
After Enron and Lehman, boards began second-guessing management on strategic issues, and GE was no exception. The timing turned out to be dreadful. Former JPMorgan CEO Sandy Warner was enamored with a GE executive. But the current CEO, Jeff Immelt, felt he wasn’t ready to be his successor. So Warner instigated a move to jumpstart the succession. In the ensuing battle, management became distracted, and ultimately, Immelt resigned. During two subsequent succession plans, Warner’s fair-haired boy was not offered the job by the GE board, even with Immelt out of the way, nor did he move onto another CEO role somewhere else. It turned out, Immelt knew who was ready to be a boss better than the board.
GE’s market value decline during this period was over $500 billion, more than the combined losses from “potted plant” boards: Enron in 2001 ($65 billion), WorldCom 2002 ($103 billion) and GM 2009 ($91 billion). Board intrusion into management’s domain may make satisfy governance gurus, but it isn’t so good for the shareholder.
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Open Access (the book)
Revision as of 09:45, 6 August 2020 by WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (→Chapter 5: Scope)
On the first part of this assertion, that publishing scholars will choose prestige over OA, see the UK Survey of Academics 2012 from Ithaka S+R, JISC, and RLUK, May 14, 2013. At pp. 69-72 the authors interpret the results presented in Figure 40: "Three factors —all closely related to the prominence and reach of the publication— were rated as very important by more than 4 in 5 respondents: that the current issues of the journal are circulated widely, are well read by academics in their field, and have a high impact factor....And other factors —the journal’s accessibility in developing nations...and the journal making its articles freely available online so there is no cost to purchase or read them— were rated as important by less than a third of respondents overall." Ithaka reported similar results in its US Faculty Survey 2009 (April 2010); see pp. 25-26 and Figure 23. I discuss the 2009 version of the results in Unanimous faculty votes, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2, 2010: "I don't dispute the Ithaka findings. In fact, I've often argued myself that scholars will choose prestige in their field over OA, when they have to choose. I've only tried to make clear that they rarely have to choose [here omitting citations to four earlier articles]....[I]t's not hard to reconcile this evidence with the evidence of the unanimous faculty votes [for university green OA policies]. The Ithaka finding is about gold OA, and the unanimous faculty votes are about green OA. Green OA policies allow faculty to submit their work to the journals of their choice. One of the primary reasons why OA mandates focus on green rather than gold OA (or repositories rather than journals) is precisely to preserve this sort of academic freedom. When the high-profile journals in a field are TA, then a green OA policy allows faculty to have the best of both worlds: prestige from the journal publishing the article and OA from the institutional repository. It's not at all surprising that faculty, or faculty who understand their OA options, will take the best of both worlds when they can. That explains both the preference for high-profile journals and the support for green OA. Meantime, more and more OA journals are moving into the top cohort of prestige and impact in more and more fields, a second reason why authors rarely have to choose between prestige and OA...."
Another example is the Elsevier corpus of 40k OA articles under CC-BY licenses, August 6, 2020 (perma.cc link), created to train IA and NLP software.
See Nathan J. Robinson, The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free, Current Affairs, August 2, 2020 (perma.cc link): "A problem beyond cost, though, is convenience. I find that even when I am doing research through databases and my university library, it is often an absolute mess: the sites are clunky and constantly demanding login credentials. The amount of time wasted in figuring out how to obtain a piece of research material is a massive cost on top of the actual pricing."
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Photo gallery: 2016 Tour de France, Stage 12
by CyclingTips
Photography by Cor Vos, Jered & Ashley Gruber, BrakeThrough Media, Kristof Ramon
Thomas De Gendt (Lotto-Soudal) paced himself perfectly up Mont Ventoux to take an stage win on Bastille Day at Chalet-Reynard on Thursday, while behind, chaos ensued behind.
Richie Porte (BMC Racing), Chris Froome (Team Sky), and Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) had distanced themselves from the rest of the GC contenders and were working together with less than 2km remaining in the stage. Porte was on the attack when a TV motorbike leading the trio came to a standstill due to the sheer number of fans lining the road.
The BMC rider plowed into the back of the motorbike, with Froome and Mollema also crashing. The Dutchman on Trek-Segafredo stood up and got going again, while Porte fixed his chain on his bike. Froome, who was hit by a second moto following behind, began running up Mount Ventoux, his bike destroyed.
ASO and the UCI race commissaires accounted for the bizarre incident, with Froome remaining in the maillot jaune. Froome and Porte were given the same time as Mollema on the stage. The two-time Tour champion leads Adam Yates (Orica-BikeExchange) by 47 seconds with Mollema third, 56 seconds back. Nairo Quintana (Movistar) sits fourth, 1:01 behind.
“The Ventoux is full of surprises,” Froome said after receiving his maillot jaune. “In the last kilometer, a motorbike broke in front of us and made us crash. Another motorbike came from behind and broke my bike. That’s how I became a walker. I knew the car with my spare bike was five minutes behind. I’m very happy with the commissaires’ decision. It’s the correct one. Thanks to them and to the Tour de France organization.”
Read the full stage 12 race report, highlight video and results here.
The mythical Mont Ventoux: The finish of Stage 12 was moved 6 kilometres down the mountain to Chalet-Reynard due to high winds. That decison would later have an impact on the influx of crowds at Chalet-Reynard. Photo: Kristof Ramon
Georg Preidler (Giant-Alpecin), Diego Rosa (Astana), Cyril Gautier (Ag2r-La Mondiale), Tom-Jelte Slagter (Cannondale-Drapac), and Paul Voss (Bora-Argon 18) chased hard to reach the 13-rider breakaway, but they would not make it up to the leaders. Photo: Cor Vos
The calm before the chaos. Photo: Cor Vos
Simon Gerrans (Orica-BikeExchange) was involved in a heavy crash 35km from the finish. He broke his collarbone, forcing him to abandon the Tour for a third year in a row. Photo: Kristof Ramon
A tunnel of noise greeted the riders up the famed Mount Ventoux. Photo: Cor Vos
Not every fan on Mount Ventoux was going crazy for the race. Photo: Cor Vos
Serge Pauwels (Dimension Data) and Thomas De Gendt (Lotto-Soudal) proved to be the strongest of the breakaway riders and would battle for the stage win. Photo: Gruber Images
The Dutch fans were out in droves on Mont Ventoux. Photo: Cor Vos
Richie Porte (BMC Racing Team), Chris Froome (Team Sky), and Bauke Mollema (Trek Segafredo) broke away from the other GC contenders a few kilometres from the finish. Photo: Cor Vos
The crash heard around the world in the last kilometer of the Mont Ventoux climb: Mollema, Froome, and Porte, on the ground.
Pauwels came close to making it five stage wins for Dimension Data, but De Gendt proved to have a bit more power in the sprint for the line. Photo: Gruber Images
Daniel Navarro (Cofidis) had a solid ride to finish third on the day. He was part of the original breakaway. Photo: Gruber Images
Froome’s bike was destroyed in the crash, so he started running up the mountain with it. Photo: Cor Vos
Froome would ultimately leave his destroyed bike leaning against a moto. Photo: Cor Vos
While Froome was running, Pauwels had a drink in each hand at the finish to recover from the effort the climb required. Photo: Gruber Images
The fans were just as wild for the dropped riders as they were for the leaders and GC contenders. Photo: Gruber Images
Mollema recovered the best of the three from the moto crash and charged across the line. Photo: Gruber Images
Fabio Aru (Astana) led the group containing most of GC contenders across line. The group finished ahead of Froome out on the road, but Froome would ultimately have his time recorded with Mollema due to extreme circumstances surrounding the crash with the moto bike. Photo: Kristof Ramon
For a moment it looked like Adam Yates (Orica-BikeExchange) might move from white into yellow as he finished ahead of Chris Froome. The jury ultimately decided that due to the severe race incident in the last kilometer, standings at the point of the incident were the ones that would be upheld. Photo: Kristof Ramon
Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) guided his team leader Nairo Quintana across the line. The Colombian paid for his attacks on the lower slopes and lost time to Froome and the other GC contenders. Photo: Kristof Ramon
Froome shook his head as he crossed the finish line at Chalet-Reynard. Photo: Cor Vos
Froome received his maillot jaune to a mixed chorus of cheers and boos from the crowd, some of whom felt he had lost the yellow jersey and did not deserve it. Photo: Cor Vos
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HomeHealth Care & MedicalEXCLUSIVE: US Woman’s blood turns navy blue after taking pain releif medicines…Here’s...
EXCLUSIVE: US Woman’s blood turns navy blue after taking pain releif medicines…Here’s why?
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EXCLUSIVE: US Woman's blood turns navy blue after taking pain releif medicines...Here's why?
A 25-year-old woman in Rhode Island gave new meaning to the phrase “feeling blue” when she developed a rare and sometimes fatal condition called methemoglobinemia that turned her blood a deep shade of navy blue.
The woman, whose case was delineated Wednesday within the geographic area Journal of medication, told doctors that she had used a topical pain reliever for a toothache.
The woman had indeed taken on a blueish tinge: She was what doctors call cyanotic, a medical term that refers to when the skin and nails can take on a blueish color. This is a typical sign the body isn’t obtaining enough elements.
Her blood had conjointly taken on a blue look. While blood is drawn from a vein typically takes on a darker appearance because it isn’t carrying oxygen, blood drawn from an artery should appear bright red. In the woman’s case, blood from her veins and arteries were dark blue.
Warren immediately recognized the problem: methemoglobinemia. He’d seen one case before, during his residency, when a patient developed the disease after being treated with an antibiotic. “The complexion looked precisely the same,” Warren told NBC News.
The diagnosing prompted Warren to require an additional precise activity of the woman’s blood element level, which showed that it was in fact much lower, at 67 percent. At this level, tissue damage can occur.
Methemoglobinemia happens once the iron in an exceedingly person’s blood changes kind and, as a result, can no longer bind to oxygen and carry it through the body. This means that even supposing an individual has no problem respiration, the rest of the body can feel like it’s suffocating.
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In the woman’s case, she hadn’t taken an antibiotic. Instead, she had used associate over-the-counter desensitizing medication, which contained benzocaine, to help with pain from a toothache. She told Warren that she didn’t use the complete bottle, however, it had been apparent to him that she had “used an entire ton of it.”
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Last updated Fri, 04/28/2017 - 18:08
With regard to the EEG:
a) List three indications for the use of the EEG in a critically ill patient
b) What are the clinical implications of non-convulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) in the critically ill patient?
c) List two EEG patterns that may be seen after hypoxic brain injury thought to be associated with a poor prognosis.
• Detection of non convulsive seizures and characterization of spells in patients with altered mental status with: (A history of epilepsy, Fluctuating level of consciousness, Acute brain injury, Recent convulsive status epilepticus, Stereotyped activity such as paroxysmal movements, nystagmus, twitching, jerking, hippus, autonomic variability)
• Monitoring of ongoing therapy: Induced coma for elevated intracranial pressure or refractory status epilepticus, Assessing level of sedation
• Prognosis: Following cardiac arrest, acute brain injury
An underdiagnosed entity.
In several studies, the presence of NCSE and delay to diagnosis and treatment were each associated with significantly more frequent mortality. Periodic epileptiform discharges (PED) have also been associated with a significant increase in death or severe disability at hospital discharge in particular in neurologic disease/injury. NCSE may also occur in those without primary brain injury e.g. sepsis and conveys the same prognosis. Aggressive treatment as for convulsive status epilepticus is recommended.
Note: none of these patterns are specific for death or poor outcome and must be regarded along with clinical assessment.
• Generalised suppression/isoeletric
• Generalised burst suppression especially if accompanied by epileptiform activity
• Epileptiform and generalised periodic discharges, especially myoclonus
• Alpha pattern coma
a) This answer comes from Box 49.2 in Oh's Manual (page 556).
Confirmation of non-convulsive status epilepticus
Continuous monitoring of general anaesthetic infusion for status epilepticus
Confirmation of brain death or prognosis of hypoxic/ischaemic brain injury
Brain injury (excitotoxicity) could occur due to unrecognised seizures
Cerebral metabolic rate may be higher, and cerebral metabolic demand may not be met if the NCSE is not recognised and treated, giving rise to ischaemia
NCSE patients have a poorer prognosis than patients with a disorder of consciousness from other causes
The underlying cause of NSCE is the most important prognostic factor
c) Again, the same box in Ohs Manual has the answers. Severe hypoxic encephalopathy is associated with the following EEG features:
Presence of theta activity
Diffuse slowing
Burst suppression
Alpha coma
Oh's Intensive Care manual: Chapter 49 (pp. 549) Disorders of consciousness by Balasubramanian Venkatesh
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Egyptian Libation Bowl
by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
Priests used bowls like this in temples for liquid offerings to the gods. Two faces of the goddess Hathor adorn the rim. Flat depictions of persons were usually in profile, but Hathor's face was widely displayed in frontal view. In such images she has cow's ears, but she could also represented with horns or as a cow. Hathor was Egypt's most universal goddess, and the bowl probably stood in a temple of a different deity. However, it bears no inscription to reveal where this was. 22nd Dynasty, circa 945-715 BCE. Perhaps from Karnak, Egypt. (The British Museum, London).
Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.
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Mahaska County, Iowa Facts
When was Mahaska County, IA Created?
Mahaska County was established on February 17, 1843 (Organized in February 5, 1844) from Unorganized Territory. The county was named in honor of Mahaska, a chief of the Iowa Native American tribe
What is the County Seat of Mahaska County, IA?
The County Seat is located in Oskaloosa and the county government website is http://www.mahaskacounty.org/
What counties are adjacent to Mahaska County, IA?
Bordering Counties are Jasper County, Poweshiek County, Keokuk County, Wapello County, Monroe County, Marion County.
What cities and towns are in Mahaska County, IA?
Cities and towns located in the County include Barnes City, Beacon, Eddyville, Fremont, Keomah Village, Leighton, New Sharon, Oskaloosa, Rose Hill, University Park.
Mahaska County, IA Vital Records
Where can find Mahaska County Birth, marriage, Divorce and Death Records?
Mahaska County vital records can be found at the Iowa Office of Vital Records which has copies of birth, marriage and death records from July 1880. There is a fee for each copy requested. Please refer to the information to the Statewide Vital Records in Iowa for current fees and application process.
You can search online for Mahaska County Birth, Marriage, Divorce or Death Records. You can also Order Electronically Online or can download an application for Iowa Birth Certificate, Marriage Certificate, Death Certificate Application to mail.
USGenweb Archives Iowa Marriage Project
Iowa, Births and Christenings, 1830-1950
Iowa, Births and Christenings Index, 1857-1947
Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935
Iowa State Court System; Divorce Records 1992 to December 2008
Iowa State Public Record Offices; Marriage Records 1834 – 1900
Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934
Iowa Marriages to 1850
Iowa, Marriages, 1851-1900
Iowa, Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990
Mahaska County, IA Census Records
What Mahaska County, IA census records are available?
There are many types of census records for Mahaska County guide you in researching your family tree. Federal Population Schedules are available for 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 (free index), 1890 (fragment), 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940.
Mahaska Co. Mortality Schedules can be found for 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. Mahaska Co. Industry and Agriculture can be obtained for 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. Mahaska Co. Union Veterans Schedules is available for 1890.
Another Iowa census is the Iowa State Census Collection from 1836-1925. One can find free online and printable census forms to help you with your research. See Also Iowa Census Records Research Guide
Iowa Census, 1838-70
Mahaska County, IA Census Records Links
Iowa Census Images Project
Mahaska County, IA Census QuickFacts
Mahaska County, IA Courthouse and Government Records
Mahaska County Courthouse
What genealogical records can I find in the Mahaska County Courthouse?
The below facts shows exactly what death, marriage, birth, property, wills, and court records are typically in Mahaska County. The years listed below are the first noted records with this county. See Also Iowa Corthouse Records Research Guide.
PLEASE READ FIRST!!! Please call the clerk’s department to confirm hours, mailing address, fees and other specifics before visiting or requesting information because of sometimes changing contact information. The Department Offices DO NOT DO RESEARCH. The files are available to interested parties, barring private issues. Many staff will guide individuals in locating the materials, however it’s up to the person to carry out the research.
Mahaska County Courthouse (all departments listed below are located here, unless otherwise noted)
Address: 106 S 1st St, Oskaloosa, IA 52577
Mahaska County Recorder’s Office maintains official records of documents affecting title to real estate. Every real estate transaction that takes place begins in the Recorder’s Office. One of the major duties of the office is the management of public records. As a result, accuracy and preservation of records are a must in the Recorder’s Office. In addition to real estate transactions, the Recorder’s Office issues titles and liens; records veterans discharge papers; processes passport applications; accepts marriage applications and issues the subsequent license; issues certified copies of birth, death and marriage records as well as other numerous duties.
Birth / Death Records: 1880
Mahaska County Clerk of Court manages and maintains all trial court records, including pleadings, evidence and orders. The clerks of court have hundreds of administrative duties. They accept and process fines, fees and court costs owed to the state, child support checks, and civil judgments owed to litigants. They maintain a record of liens on all real estate in the county. Clerks help with involuntary hospitalization cases. They have the authority to dispose of scheduled violations which are not contested and do not require a court hearing. Clerks are also responsible for informing state and local government agencies of court orders.
Mahaska County, IA Societies and Family History Resources
What genealogical and historical societies, archives, museums, associations and libraries are available for Mahaska County, IA?
A list of Mahaska County Historical and Genealogical Societies, Libraries, Archives. See also list of Statewide Iowa Archives, Historical & Genealogical Societies.
Keo-Mah Genealogical Society, 209 A Ave East, Oskaloosa, IA 52577-2807; (641) 673-9373
Iowa State Archives & Records Program
State Historical Society of Iowa, Capitol Complex, Des Moines, IA 50319
Iowa Genealogical Society, 628 E. Grand Ave., Des Moines, Iowa 50309
Where can I connect with other Mahaska County, IA Researchers through message boards and forums?
Iowa State Genealogy Network (facebook.com)
Iowa Genealogy Network Community (plus.google.com)
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What other genealogical resources are available in Mahaska County, IA?
The following are web links to Genealogy, Records and Resources pertaining to Mahaska County. Many of these genealogy links fall into 3 categories: Business oriented Sites, Private Sites or Organization Sites. Some have free access some have to have a cost. This is simply a list which has been compiled or submitted. I do not endorse or promote one genealogy site over another.
Mahaska Co. IA Books, Newspapers & Publications
Iowa Newspapers Books & Publications Research Guide
Iowa historical newspaper archives online (newspapers.com)
Historical Newspapers from Iowa (1837 – 1900) (genealogybank.com)
Oskaloosa Daily Herald (Oskaloosa, Iowa) (search.ancestry.com)
Mahaska County, Iowa Books (amazon.com)
Search Iowa Obituaries (1985 to current) (genealogybank.com)
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Mahaska Co. IA Cemeteries & Church Records
Iowa Cemetery Research Guide
Iowa Cemetery Records (search.ancestry.com) This collection is the largest compilation of the Iowa WPA cemetery records found in one single place.
Mahaska Co., Iowa Graves (findagrave.com)
Iowa WPA Graves Registration Survey (iagenweb.org) These records contain burials throughout much of Iowa that were compiled by WPA workers in the 1930 s, including grave markers which no longer exist today. Records may be searched within a county or state-wide.
Mahaska County Tombstone Transcription Project (usgwtombstones.org)
Mahaska Co., Iowa Cemeteries (Internment.net)
Iowa Civil War Soldier Burial Records (search.ancestry.com) At least 75,000 soldiers enlisted from the state of Iowa during the Civil War and thousands more who served from other states settled in Iowa following the Rebellion. This database currently contains a listing of over 18,800 of these service men (and a few women) who died and were buried in the state, or who enlisted from the state of Iowa and are buried elsewhere.
Topographic Cemetery List and Map for Mahaska County, Iowa
Mahaska Co., Iowa Cemetery Books (amazon.com)
Iowa Church & Bible Research Guide
Topographic Church List and Map for Mahaska County, Iowa
Mahaska County, Iowa Church Books (amazon.com)
Mahaska Co. IA Family Websites, Pictures & Histories
Iowa Family Group Sheet Project (fgs-project.com)
Mahaska Co. IA General and History Websites
See Also State History for Iowa
Mahaska County, Iowa Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
The History of Mahaska County, Iowa (search.ancestry.com)
Mahaska County, Iowa Biographical Dictionary, 1887 (search.ancestry.com)
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Cyndi’s List – United States – Iowa – Counties – Mahaska (cyndislist.com)
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Mahaska County Courthouse History (iowacourtsonline.org)
Mahaska Co. IAGenweb (iagenweb.org)
Mahaska County Genealogy Queries (cousinconnect.com)
Mahaska Co. Data Collections (search.ancestry.com)
Mahaska Co. IA Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers
See Also Map of Iowa Links and Information
1895 Mahaska County Map (livgenmi.com)
Mahaska County and City Maps (iowadot.gov)
Mahaska Co. IA Military Records
Iowa Military Records Research Guide
Iowa Military Records (fold3.com) provides you with easy access to military records, stories, photos, and personal documents belonging to the Iowa both males and females which served. Just the thing for Mahaska County genealogists, researchers, historians and more.
Iowa Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, 1885 (search.ancestry.com) This database contains a list of ex-soldiers, sailors, and marines who were living in Iowa in 1885.
Mahaska Co. IA Schools & Directories
Iowa Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1884-1885 (search.ancestry.com) This database contains the 1884-85 Iowa gazetteer and business directory. The gazetteer covers each city, town, village, and settlement in Iowa and includes a description of each place and a directory of the people engaged in business or the professions located there.
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PKAN
Pantothenate Kinase-Associated Neurodegeneration
Clinically evident retinal degeneration is present in a significant number (25-50%) of individuals. However, when combined with ERG evidence the proportion rises to 68%. When present it occurs early and one series reported that it is unlikely to appear later if it was not present early in the course of the neurodegeneration. Some patients have a fleck-like retinopathy. Optic atrophy may be present in advanced cases.
This is a disorder primarily of the basal ganglia resulting from progressive damage secondary to iron accumulation. There is an early onset classic form with symptoms of extrapyramidal disease beginning in the first decade of life and rapid progression to loss of ambulation in about 15 years. Others with atypical disease may not have symptoms until the second or third decades. Clumsiness, gait disturbance, and difficulty with tasks requiring fine motor coordination are common presenting symptoms. Motor tics are often seen. Dysarthria, dystonia, rigidity and corticospinal signs are often present early as well. Swallowing difficulties may be severe sometimes leading to malnutrition. Cognitive decline and psychiatric disturbances such as obsessive-compulsive behavior and depression may follow. Independent ambulation is lost in the majority of patients within one to two decades. Brain MRIs show an ‘eye of the tiger’ sign with a specific T2- weighted pattern of hyperintensity within the medial globus pallidus and the substantia nigra pars reticulata.
Iron accumulation in the basal ganglia resulting from homozygous mutations in the PANK2 gene (20p13-12.3) encoding a pantothenate kinase leads to the classic form of this autosomal recessive disorder.
This is the most common of several diseases of neurodegeneration with iron accumulation in the brain known collectively as NBIAs. The group is genetically heterogeneous with many overlapping features. Mutations in PLA2G6 cause NBIA2A (256600) and NBIA2B (610217) while mutations in a FLT gene cause NBIA3 (606159). The latter does not have apparent eye signs.
Autosomal recessive
Pharmacologic treatment is aimed at alleviation of specific symptoms such as dystonia and spasticity. Some symptoms may improve with deep brain stimulation.
Clinical and genetic delineation of neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation
Gregory A, Polster BJ, Hayflick SJ. Clinical and genetic delineation of neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation. J Med Genet. 2009 Feb;46(2):73-80. Review.
The diverse phenotype and genotype of pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration
Pellecchia MT, Valente EM, Cif L, Salvi S, Albanese A, Scarano V, Bonuccelli U, Bentivoglio AR, D'Amico A, Marelli C, Di Giorgio A, Coubes P, Barone P, Dallapiccola B. The diverse phenotype and genotype of pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration. Neurology. 2005 May 24;64(10):1810-2.
Genetic, clinical, and radiographic delineation of Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome
Hayflick SJ, Westaway SK, Levinson B, Zhou B, Johnson MA, Ching KH, Gitschier J. Genetic, clinical, and radiographic delineation of Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome. N Engl J Med. 2003 Jan 2;348(1):33-40.
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Share this Story: Letters: Climate change fuels many emotions
Letters: Climate change fuels many emotions
As a climate change research scientist, I was recently asked to share how I feel about the subject on a website featuring climate researchers from around the world. So how do I feel?
Dec 01, 2014 • December 1, 2014 • 5 minute read
The setting sun reflects off a tailings pond behind Syncrude’s oilsands upgrading facility north of Fort McMurray in this June 18, 2013 file photo. Photo by Ryan Jackson /Edmonton Journal/file
As a climate change research scientist, I was recently asked to share how I feel about the subject on a website featuring climate researchers from around the world.
Afraid: For my grandchildren, for my family, for people. That keeps me awake at night.
Angry: Fossil fuels cause terrible pollution and climate warming that lead to millions of deaths every year, and many millions sickened. We have better options.
Frustrated: With complacency. Parents who would leap between a bear or lion and a child — live in ignorance, confusion or, at best, fear. Leap into the climate debate, mom and dad.
Sadness: Many have been hurt, many more will be. Rapid action on climate change will save many lives and prevent enormous property losses globally, and in your town.
Bewildered: Almost all the weather extremes are becoming more extreme due to a warmer atmosphere. Why is that hard to understand?
Nervous anticipation: Listen to the science, or to nature. The latter will speak louder, with random and terrible viciousness — storms, heat waves, drought, floods and pollution — all causing pain and suffering.
Excitement: We have the plans, policies and technology to fix this. We can have great lives with clean, safe renewable energy. Please help! Get involved. Demand action at all political levels.
Gratitude: Thanks for listening — and for acting. Ask how, if you need to.
James Byrne, professor, University of Lethbridge
Put emphasis on substance
Re: “Wildrose leader pledges no additional defections,” Nov. 27
The downturn in theWildrose party’s fortunes has a variety of causes — most self-inflicted — at a time when they had everything to gain. Repairing them will require lots more than just “regrouping” and “reflecting.”
First off, stop the annoyingly predictable responses by the party leader or spokespersons during media scrums to whatever the government of the day proposes or announces. These responses tend to revolve around, “This is a typical and one more example of the arrogant and out-of touch …”
Are they not able to articulate a brief but cogent or somewhat meaningful criticism, or present an option of sorts to what they are criticizing? Or do they feel that the average Albertan cannot understand anything more than the lame, repetitive mantra? This tape-loop response, always accompanied by a faux furious demeanour by the spokesperson, is as annoying as it is puerile. This is not “holding the government to account.”
If they hope to govern — and this goes for the other opposition parties, too — can they not come up now and then with a little more imagination and substance in their commentary?
Morris Maduro, Edmonton
Neither rain nor snow …
After seeing the snow and the state of our neighbourhood streets and my parking lot, I assumed that Friday morning would be one of those days when the Journal would not make it to my door.
Imagine my surprise when I opened the door to walk the dogs at 6:15 a.m. to see tracks on the steps — and through the knee-high drift that blocked the sidewalk — and the Journal in my mailbox, as usual. I am so impressed.
Tell him or her how pleased and amazed I am that they made it.
Kathy McCartney, Edmonton
Penny wise, pound foolish
Re: “Don’t measure system, fix it,” Letters, Sue Anderson, Nov. 24
Last year, Alberta Health Services assigned an untrained caregiver to change the catheter for my son, who is a bed-ridden quadriplegic. The improper replacement led to infection and blockage, a 911 call and immediate transportation to hospital. My son was discharged the next day, but his condition flared up the following day and again 911 was called. This resulted in a total of four EMS ambulance attendances at a cost of $250 apiece.
Since then, my son and I have refused the services of an unqualified caregiver from a private company. We have insisted that AHS send a registered nurse, which they have. The result? No further complications or 911 calls. It’s another example of “penny wise, pound foolish.”
Zdenka Landa, Edmonton
Same situation six years on
Re: “A tale of two old hospitals,” Nov. 28
I had an experience similar to Shelly Janvier’s in August 2008 and can’t believe the same thing is still going on at the Royal Alexandra Hospital.
I was admitted with a life-threatening infection and given a bed after spending the first 24 hours in emergency. One woman in the hospital room had been in a temporary bed, squeezed in the corner beside a closet and a sink, with no privacy. There were four other women in the room, including myself.
When the woman in the temporary bed was released the next day, administration told me I was being moved to the temporary bed. When I refused, they accused me of being selfish as someone else needed my bed. When I again said no, they accused me of being difficult. I told them to call security to move me as I would not willingly go myself.
I was extremely sick, had lost 18 kilograms and was skin and bone. The mattress on the temporary bed was maybe five cm thick. I had problems getting comfortable on a normal mattress, let alone a thin one. Also, I wanted my privacy and didn’t know if I was going to survive the infection, which was considered rare.
Fourteen days and three different rooms later, I was released with a home IV and home care for four weeks.
I was disrespected, even as I could easily have died.
K.C. Brown, St. Albert
Low-income seniors suffer
I was told there’s a waiting list for low-income housing for a period of potentially five years, so I rented an apartment that was decent and in a safe area. But it takes up 75 per cent of my income.
I thought that with a housing subsidy provided provincially of one-third of the rent, I could manage. I had applied with Capital Region Housing Corporation in May to establish this subsidy. I have been informed as recently as three weeks ago that I stand in line behind at least 2,500 other applicants. Evidently seniors’ funding has been used up.
I am 76 and, not unlike many other seniors with no assets, living on the bottom of the financial ladder. After the utility bills have been paid, I frequent the food bank to try to subsidize the monies remaining, which can only be utilized monthly.
R.D. McPhee, Edmonton
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There she was pregnant with at the time,
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There were two types of Olympic Gods: Celestial Deities and Earth Deities. The Celestial Deities dwelled on Mount Olympus while the Earth Deities resided on, or under, Earth. There were twelve Olympic Gods; however, because the tales of these gods started out orally, the gods and goddesses classified as Olympians are not totally clear.
Because the Twelve Olympians are not totally clear, there are a possible fourteen gods and goddesses that could be classified as Olympians. The gods and goddesses all had their place in Ancient Greece and were either worshipped or hated because of their responsibilities and talents. The Greek Gods and Goddesses all had a great influence and importance to Greek culture.When Zeus, Jupiter in Roman Mythology, was young, he overthrew his father, Cronus, to become the Supreme Ruler and Protector God. Zeuss power, which included him as the Lord of the Sky, Rain God, God of Thunder, God of the Winds, and Cloud-Gatherer, was greater than that of all of the other gods and goddesses ascendancy combined.(Guirand 105; Hamilton 25-26) Zeus married and made mistresses of many women. Metis was his first wife.
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Gaea and Uranus warned Zeus that if Metis had the child she was pregnant with at the time, the child would be more powerful than he and overthrow him just as he overthrew his father. Zeus swallowed Metis when she was about to give birth to prevent this. A few of Zeuss wives included: Themis, Uranus and Gaeas daughter, Mnemosyne, which gave birth to the nine muses with Zeus, Oceanid Eurynome, who gave birth to the three graces with Zeus, and Hera. Many of Zeus’s children were given birth by his mistresses, some of which were mortals.(Guirand 105-106)The god was normally depicted as a man in the fullness of maturity, of robust body, a grave countenance and a broad forehead jutting out above his deeply set eyes. His face is framed by thick waving hair and a finely curled beardHe usually wears a long mantle which leaves his chest and right arm free. His attributes are the sceptre in his left hand, in his right hand the thunderbolt and at his feet the eagle.
Often he wears a crown of oak-leaves. (Guirand 105)Hera, or Juno in Roman mythology, was Zeuss main wife and was his sister. Although her parents were Cronus and Rhea, Titans Oceans and Tethys brought her up.
(Hamilton 26-27) She was the Celestial Virgin, Queen of the Sky, the Protector of Marriage, especially married women, Goddess of maternity, and presided over all of the phases of womens existence. (Guirand 113; Hamilton 26-27) Hera was very jealous of Zeuss many other women, and revenged on them with some sort of a punishment. (Hamilton 26-27) In her favorite city of Argos, there were five temples to her. In Stymphalus, there were three temples to her: child-goddess, wife-goddess, and widow-goddess.
(Guirand 113-114; Hamilton 27) Hera was depicted as a young woman, fully developed, or a chaste and severe beauty. Her forehead is normally crowned with a diadem or with a high crown of cylindrical shape, the polos. She wears a long tunic of chiton and is enveloped in a veil which adds to her bearing of nobility, reserved and full of modesty. Her attributes are a sceptre surmounted by a cuckoo (in allusion to the circumstances of her nuptials) and a pomegranate, symbol of conjugal love and fruitfulness.
(Guirand 113)Hera and Zeuss brother Poseidon, Neptune in Roman mythology, was second, only to Zeus, in power and importance. Poseidon was the Ruler of the Sea and gave the first horse to man. His nickname, The Earth-Shaker, was given to him because of his ability to shake and shatter what he pleased with his trident that he always carried. (Hamilton 27-28) He was portrayed as a man with less serene features, a thick beard, and disorderly hair. (Guirand 151) Hades was also the son of Cronus and Rhea.
When Zeus took over as the Supreme Ruler from his father, he divided the world giving the Underworld to Hades. (Hades 1) Hades was the King of the Underworld and ruled the dead with Persephone, his chosen wife, as the Queen. (Hades 1; Hamilton 42) Hades was viewed as a pitless, grim god; however, he was not evil. In fact, he was also known as Pluto, Lord of the Riches, because crops and precious metals were both believed to have come from his kingdom below the ground. (Hades 1)The oldest Olympian, Hestia, also called Vesta, was an offspring of Cronus and Rhea also. She was a Virgin Goddess, the Fire-Divinity, Goddess of the Household, and Goddess of the Hearth. (Guirand 156; Hamilton 37) Because of her responsibilities, she was considered a symbol of the home.
Every city in Greece had a public hearth where the fire could not go out in honor of her. (Hamilton 37)Another of Zeuss sisters, Demeter, also known as Ceres, was one of the two supreme deities on Earth. (Hamilton 53) She was the Goddess of Corn, Goddess of Fruits, and Goddess of the Riches of the Fields. (Hamilton 53; Guirand 174) Her temples, called Megaras, were found in the forests. (Guirand 174)She appears sometimes seated, sometimes walking, dressed in a long robe and often wearing a veil which covers the back of her head.
Sometimes she is crowned with ears of corn or a ribbon, and holds in her hand either a sceptre, ears of corn, or a torch. (Guirand 174)The other Supreme Deity on Earth was Dionysus, called Bacchus in Roman mythology. He was the only god whose parents were not both divines with Zeus and the Theban Princess Semele as his parents. He was the God of Wine and the God of Vine and Thebes was his city. (Hamilton 64-65)He was first depicted as a bearded man, of mature age, with brow generally crowned with ivy.
Later he appears as a beardless youth of rather effeminate aspect. Sometimes the delicate nudity of his adolescent body is half covered by the nebris, a skin of a panther or fawns; sometimes he wears a long robe such as a woman wore. His head with its long curly hair is crowned with vine leaves and bunches of grapes. In one hand he holds the thyrsus, and in the other, grapes or a wine cup.
(Guirand 178)One of Dionysus sisters, Athena, or Minerva, was Zeuss favorite child. (Guirand 118) Before Athena was born, Zeus swallowed her mother. She was born from Zeuss head full grown and in armor. Because of her fathers favoritism to her, he allowed Athena to use any of his weapons, including the thunderbolt, his favorite, awful aegis, and his buckler when she pleased. (Hamilton 29) She was the Warrior Goddess, Goddess of the Art Piece, Goddess of Intelligence, Goddess of Wisdom, Goddess of Reason, Goddess of Purity, Protector of Towns, Guardian of Acropolises, Goddess of the City, and Protector of Civilized Life, Handicrafts, and Agriculture.
As the Chief Virgin Goddess, Athena was called the Maiden of Parthenos. While she had one temple in Parthenos, in her favorite city of Athens there were three temples for her. (Hamilton 29; Guirand 117) Athena was depicted as either wearing tight draperies covering her body and a shield and spear in her hands or she wore a long chiton, had a helmet on her head, aegis, and a spear in her right hand and winged victor in her left hand. (Guirand 117) She was often described as gray-eyed or flashing-eyed. Her favorite plant was the olive because she created it and her favorite bird was the owl, which was her symbol. (Hamilton 29)Hera wanted revenge on Zeus for giving birth to Athena on his own, so Hera gave birth to Hephaestus, or Vulcan, by herself.
(Hamilton 36) He was born lame though, and his mother kicked him out of Heaven because of it. (Bulfinch 10) Hephaestus was the God of Fire, Divine Blacksmith, Workman of Immortals, and Armorer and Smith to Immortals. (Hamilton 36; Guirand 139) He made immortals dwellings, furniture, weapons, and other miscellaneous items.
(Hamilton 36) Some of his work included: palaces on Mount Olympus, Zeuss thunderbolt, golden throne, and scepter, Aegis (Helios winged chariot), Apollo and Artemis arrows, Demeters sickle, Hercules cuirass, and Achilles armor. (Guirand 139) He was kind, peace loving, and popular on Earth and in Heaven. (Hamilton 37)(Hephaestus was)traditionally represented as a robust smith, with bearded face, powerful neck and hairy chest.
His short and sleeveless chiton leaves his right shoulder bare; on his head he wears a conical bonnet and in his hands he grasps a hammer and tongs. (Guirand 139)Ares was hated by his parents, Zeus and Hera, because he was murderous and bloody. (Hamilton 35) He was the God of Blind, God of Brutal, God of Courage, God of Bloody Rage, God of War, and God of Carnage.
(Guirand 137) Although he was the God of all of these brutal and hateful elements of life, he was a coward. (Hamilton 35) At first he was depicted as a bearded warrior wearing a helmet with a tall crest and dressed in heavy armor. Later he appears as a young man, almost nude, who has retained little of his warlike attributes except the spear and helmet.
(Guirand 137)The most Greek of all the gods was Apollo. Apollo was the son of Zeus and Leto and twins with Artemis. (Hamilton 29-31) He was the Healer God, God of Sudden Death, God of Divination, God of Prophecy, Shepherd God, Musician God, God of Song, God of the Lyre, Builder God, Colonizing God, Lord of the Silver Bow, Archery God, God of Light, and God of Truth.
Apollo also ripened the fruits on Earth, protected flocks, first taught men the art of healing, and protected crops by destroying mice and driving off locusts. (Hamilton 29; Guirand 120-121) As the master musician, Apollo delighted the Gods on Mount Olympus playing his Golden Lyre. Because of his role as the God of Truth, Apollo had to tell the truth at all times and could not tell a lie. (Hamilton 29) At Delphi, his Oracle, a priestess would fall under Apollos influence and speak broken phrases of prophecy. His main attributes included: the bow, the lyre, shepherds crook, and the quiver. (Guirand120-121) He was depicted as a young man of realized beauty, with a vigorous body, a broad chest and thin hips. His beardless face with its delicate features is surmounted by a high forehead ad thick, long hair which sometimes falls freely behind him, sometimes is knotted on top or at the nape of his neck so that only a few curls fall to his shoulders.
He is generally nude or wears only a chlamys thrown over his shoulder. (Guirand 121)Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and twins with Apollo, although she was one day older than he was. (Hamilton 31; Guirand 130) She was also one of the three main goddesses.
(Hamilton 31) Artemis was the Agriculture Deity, Goddess of the Chase, Goddess of Forests, Divinity of Light because of her connection with Apollo, Deity of Sudden Death because of Apollo, Lady of Wild Things, Virgin Goddess, Huntsman-in-Chief to the gods, Goddess of the Moon, and Protectress of Dewy Youth. (Hamilton 31; Guirand 130; Bulfinch 7) She liked to shoot arrows, including shooting them at mortals and killing them and brought prosperity to anyone who honored her. (Guirand 130) During the Trojan War, Artemis kept Greek fleets from sailing to Troy until they sacrificed a maiden to her. (Hamilton 31) All animals were sacred to her, especially the deer, and the dog, which usually accompanied her.
(Hamilton 31; Guirand 130)She appears as a young virgin, slim and supple, with narrow hips and regular features. Her beauty is a little severe, with her hair drawn back or partly gathered in a knot on her head. She wears a short tunic which does not fall below her kneesHer feet are shod with the cuthurnus or laced buckskin.
(Guirand 130)Aphrodite, also called Venus, was born one of two ways: as a daughter of Zeus and Dione or she rose from the foam in the sea. She was Goddess of Love and Goddess of Beauty. She finessed all men and Gods with her amazing beauty; ironically, she married the ugliest god, Hephaestus. She was laughter loving, irresistible, and often described as (A) beautiful, golden goddess. (Hamilton 33-34) Hermes, also titled Mercury, was Zeus and Maias son. (Hamilton 34) He was Zeuss personal messenger, God of Commerce, God of the Market, Protector of Traders, Guide of the Dead, Divine Herald, Master Thief, and God of Lawful or Unlawful Profit.
He was also God of Travelers, of which he guided on their way, God of Games of Chance, Benefactor of Mankind, Protector of Mankinds Flocks, and God of Eloquence. (Hamilton 34-35; Guirand 133) He was labeled as the shrewdest, most cunning, graceful, and swift god. (Hamilton 25) In primitive times he had been represented as a mature man with a thick, long beard, his hair bound with a fillet and falling in curls to his shoulders (Later) His hair is short and crisp, his features fine; he carries his hand slightly inclined as though listening with friendly interest. His nervous and supple body is largely exposed by the chlamys tossed over his shoulder or wound round his left arm. He often wears a round, winged hata petasusand on his feet there are winged sandals.
In his hand he holds a winged staff around which serpents are entwines; this is the caduceus. (133-135)As you can see, the Greek Gods had a great importance and influence to Greek culture. They each had their own areas of life that they were to be responsible for and preside over.
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Reading: What Can We Learn about Fall Risk Factors from EHR Nursing Notes? A Text Mining Study
Special Collection: Health Datapalooza 2017
What Can We Learn about Fall Risk Factors from EHR Nursing Notes? A Text Mining Study
Ragnhildur I. Bjarnadottir ,
University of Florida, US
About Ragnhildur I.
Dr. Bjarnadottir’s research focuses on leveraging health informatics and data science to improve health care quality for underserved populations. Her dissertation research examined home care nurses’ assessment and documentation of patients’ sexual orientation and gender identity. She has also explored EHR implementation and nurses experiences with documentation systems in the long-term care setting. In her current research, Dr. Bjarnadottir uses text-mining methods to identify factors associated with risk of patient falls in acute care nurses’ progress notes.
Robert J. Lucero
Introduction: Hospital falls are a continuing clinical concern, with over one million falls occurring each year in the United States. Annually, hospital-acquired falls result in an estimated $34 billion in direct medical costs. Falls are considered largely preventable and, as a result, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have announced that fall-related injuries are no longer a reimbursable hospital cost. While policies and practices have been implemented to reduce falls, little sustained reduction has been achieved. Little empirical evidence supports the validity of published fall risk factors. While chart abstraction has been used to operationalize risk factors, few studies have examined registered nurses’ (RNs’) narrative notes as a source of actionable data. Therefore, the purpose of our study was to explore whether there is meaningful fall risk and prevention information in RNs’ electronic narrative notes.
Methods: This study utilized a natural language processing design. Data for this study were extracted from the publicly available Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC-III) database. The date comprises deidentified EHR data associated with patients who stayed in critical care units between 2001 and 2012. Text mining procedures were performed on RN’s narrative notes following the traditional steps of knowledge discovery.
Results: The corpus of data extracted from MIMIC-III database was comprised of 1,046,053 RNs’ notes from 36,583 unique patients. We identified 3,972 notes (0.4 percent) representing 1,789 (5 percent) patients with explicit documentation related to fall risk/prevention. Around 10 percent of the notes (103,685) from 23,025 patients mentioned intrinsic (patient-related) factors that have been theoretically associated with risk of falling. An additional 1,322 notes (0.1 percent) from 692 patients (2 percent) mentioned extrinsic risk factors, related to organizational design and environment. Moreover, 7672 notes (0.7 percent) from 2,571 patients (7 percent) included information on interventions that could theoretically impact patient falls.
Conclusions: This exploratory study using a NLP approach revealed that meaningful information related to fall risk and prevention may be found in RNs’ narrative notes. In particular, RNs’ notes can contain information about clinical as well as environmental and organizational factors that could affect fall risk but are not explicitly recorded by the provider as a fall risk factors. In our study, potential fall risk factors were documented for more than half of the sample. Further research is needed to determine the predictive value of these factors.
Implications for Policy or Practice: This study highlights a potentially rich but understudied source of actionable fall risk data. Furthermore, the application of novel methods to identify quality and safety measures in RNs’ notes can facilitate inclusion of RNs’ voices in patient outcomes and health services research.
Keywords: text mining, nursing, patient safety, health informatics, data science
How to Cite: Bjarnadottir RI, Lucero RJ. What Can We Learn about Fall Risk Factors from EHR Nursing Notes? A Text Mining Study. eGEMs (Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient outcomes). 2018;6(1):21. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/egems.237
Accepted on 21 Aug 2018 Submitted on 15 Nov 2017
Falls are a national public health problem across the care continuum. Hospitalization increases the risk of falls [1]. It has been estimated that between 700,000–1,000,000 falls occur in United States (U.S.) hospitals each year with associated total direct medical costs of $34 billion [1, 2]. Between 30 and 50 percent of hospital-acquired falls result in injuries, and up to 10 percent of those who fall sustain serious injuries, including fractures and brain injuries [3]. Injurious falls in the hospital contribute to longer hospital stays, unnecessary readmissions and added hospital costs. Additionally, patients who suffer a fall in the hospital may experience fear of falling, mobility impairments and other factors that increase the risk of subsequent falls. Research indicates that at least one third of hospital falls are preventable [4]. Since 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have stopped reimbursing hospitals for traumatic injuries resulting from a fall [5]. Consequently, the potential for cost savings are substantial if hospitals could effectively predict whether a patient is likely to fall during hospitalization. The prevalence of falls varies between different clinical settings. Falls are a rare event in critical care settings [6], which has been attributed to higher patient acuity and higher staff-to-patient ratios. However, falls occur in this setting with devastating effects to patients and families as well as unit staff. Moreover, nurses in critical care settings manage complex care and competing priorities for their patients, making the need to identify reliable and valid predictors of fall risk even more crucial [7].
While policies and practices have been implemented to reduce hospital-acquired falls, little sustained reduction has been achieved in U.S. hospitals [1, 3, 6]. This may be in part because existing assessment tools and prediction models used to detect patients at risk for falling have limited predictive value [8]. Moreover, existing models vary in what factors predict a fall. These inconsistencies have hindered a full understanding factors associated with the problem of hospital falls [9, 10]. The most commonly identified factors associated with fall risk (e.g. age and gender) may not be modifiable by nursing interventions and factors that are actionable by nurses appear less often in fall risk prediction models. Even though evidence indicates that nursing care and organization factors can impact health outcomes [11, 12], prediction models do not generally account for nursing assessment data, including organizational features (e.g., nurse staffing or skill mix) and nurse flowsheets and progress notes [13]. This presents an opportunity to discover the relative contribution of the organization and practice of nursing on fall risk.
Clinicians document important clinical information in the form of structured lists (i.e. structured data) and free text, such as nursing progress notes. It is estimated that 75 percent of available electronic health record data is in narrative form [14]. In progress notes, clinicians document additional/supplementary patient care information they consider important, but might not be captured through structured data fields. Researchers have reported on consistent patterns in nurses’ progress note documentation that can predict adverse patient outcomes, such as cardiac arrest [15, 16]. Even though information contained in nurses’ progress notes is clinically important, researchers have documented that these notes are rarely read by other clinicians. Moreover, research has focused narrowly on examining the structure and content of nurses’ progress notes [17, 18].
Analyses of unstructured data come with unique challenges because it is not directly computer-readable. Textual data cannot be analyzed using traditional statistics [19]. Using and identifying methods to extract and analyze nurses’ progress notes can result in generating knowledge of factors related to patients’ risk of adverse outcomes, such as falling.
Text mining has emerged as a promising method to extract and analyze clinical progress notes [17]. Research has demonstrated that text mining can be effective in identifying data from clinical progress notes, including chart review and adverse event detection [20, 21, 22, 23]. The existing body of text mining research has focused largely on the application of text mining in physician-generated notes. Other narrative data exist to study the content and potential contribution of registered nurses (RNs)—e.g., RN-generated electronic health record (EHR) clinical progress notes [17].
Given that nursing progress notes are an understudied data source, an important first step to address is to examine the content of RN-generated EHR progress notes. This includes determining whether and to what extent content that is clinically or theoretically related to the topic of study (i.e., falls) is present in RN progress notes. Therefore, the purpose of this text mining study was to explore whether there is meaningful fall risk and prevention information in RNs’ EHR progress notes.
This study applied text mining methods to examine content related to fall risk and prevention in RNs’ electronic narrative notes. Text mining automatically identifies features or information from free text using controlled vocabularies, rule sets, reference dictionaries or lexicons. These can either be based on existing standard vocabularies or terminologies, like the Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT) [24], or be based on subject matter expertise. This study utilized a combination of these, as will be described in the following section.
This text mining study was informed by a multi-systemic fall prevention model developed by Choi et al. [25]. The multi-systemic fall prevention model depicts relationships between risk factors and interventions impacting the outcome of falls and fall-related injuries. Risk factors are characterized as either intrinsic (patient-related) or extrinsic (environmental) risk factors. Interventions are characterized as either environment-related, care process or culture-related, or technology-related factors. The model is displayed in Figure 1.
A Multi-Systemic Fall Prevention Model [25].
Data source and setting
This study utilized the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC) III open-source dataset, maintained and shared by PhysioNet [26]. The data represents patients admitted to critical care units at a large medical center in the Northeast United States between the years 2001 and 2012. The full data set contains data from 38,597 distinct adult patients and 49,785 hospital admissions that has been deidentified using a rigorously evaluated deidentification system [26]. Sample characteristics and further information on the MIMIC III dataset have been previously reported. This study used narrative notes included in the MIMIC III dataset under the label NOTEEVENTS. The data file was further filtered to include only nursing notes. Filtering based on whether a patient in the sample had suffered a fall during their hospital admission or not was not possible as the data is unlabeled. Therefore, we applied text mining to all nursing notes of all patients in the sample to identify factors theoretically (rather than statistically) associated with the risk of falling.
Text mining process
This study used the Java programming language [27] and the MySQL database management system [28], and followed the traditional approach of knowledge discovery in data bases [29]. This approach is comprised of five steps: 1) Data selection, 2) Pre-processing, 3) Transformation, 4) Data mining and 5) Interpretation [29]. The first step involved the selection and acquisition of MIMIC III data. The second step, preprocessing, involved the cleaning of the data and setting the data up in a Structured Query Language (SQL) database to enable data analysis. Following initial data preprocessing, the data was transformed into n-grams using a MySQL n-gram parser. An n-gram is a sequence of a certain number of words from a larger string of words, such as a sentence [19, 30]. Examples of potential n-grams related to this study would be “accidental” (unigram), “fall risk” (bigram) and “fall risk assessment” (trigram). This study used a combination of unigrams, bigrams and trigrams, which has been found to yield higher accuracy in text categorization, compared to the use of only one type of n-gram [30].
For the data mining step, a preliminary lexicon of words and terms that are clinically or theoretically related to patient falls was developed. The lexicon served as a reference dictionary for text mining in this study. The lexicon was developed by first noting words and terms that emerged from a systematic review of literature on fall risk prediction modelling [13]. Second, two leading fall risk assessment tools, STRATIFY [31] and the Morse Fall Scale [32], were examined and terms from these added to the lexicon. Third, the fall prevention toolkit developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) [4] was explored for any additional words or terms to add to the lexicon. Fourth, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) 9 [33], SNOMED-CT [24], the Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) [34] and the NANDA International terminologies [35] were searched for any additional words or phrases to add to the lexicon. Finally, the content of the lexicon was discussed with subject matter experts. Subject matter expertise was defined as: 1) advanced degree in nursing or health care data analytics, 2) demonstrated record of clinical research, or 3) at least 5 years of bedside clinical experience. In total, we consulted seven subject matter experts. Two had expertise in health care data analytics, including public health and engineering and mathematics and applied statistics. The remaining five had advanced nursing degrees (i.e., master and doctoral degrees) and current clinical practice experience. Two of the five clinical experts had a record of clinical research with a focus on patient safety and quality and health services and nursing workforce. After discussions with subject matter experts, additional terms were added to the lexicon based on their expert feedback. The lexicon is displayed in Appendix 1. Based on the theoretical framework described above [25], the lexicon used in this study included words and phrases explicitly referring to fall risk, events or prevention activities, as well as patient, environmental and organizational factors that have empirically or theoretically been linked to the risk of hospital-acquired falls. This theory- and expert-derived lexicon was used as the reference dictionary for n-gram extraction. N-gram extraction was performed using MySQL to identify notes containing n-grams matching terms from the theory- and expert-derived lexicon. An iterative process was applied by examining a subset of extracted notes and adding any additional n-grams (words or terms) that were identified. Instances of note entries matching n-grams or terms from the lexicon were indexed in a new table within the SQL database to enable further exploration of the content. The final step, interpretation, involved examining the findings and determining when additional notes were no longer being identified through new text mining iterations. This was accomplished after three iterations of the text mining process [29].
The analytical sample was comprised of 1,046,053 RN-generated EHR progress notes from 36,583 unique patients. Notes containing any n-grams related to fall risk and prevention were identified for two thirds of the patients. The most frequently identified n-grams are displayed in Tables 1a, 1b and 1c.
Risk Factors: Most frequently identified n-grams and their total frequency.
N-gram
Total frequency
iv/intravenous 167305 risk for injury/risk of injury 480
sedative 120377 safety issue 218
follows commands 44136 staffing 100
confused 37762 low light 65
ambulation 11812 out of reach 34
not following commands 9735 long hours 27
FRID 9085 ill-fitting/ill fitting 43
dizziness 7637 hazardous 12
to get oob 6835 new nurse 7
low bp/low blood pressure 7146 clutter 5
Most frequently identified n-grams and their total frequency.
Environment-Related
Care Process & Culture-Related
Technology-Related
safety precautions 1302 monitor mental status 3657 bed alarm/bedalarm 4784
bed low 730 maintain safety 2512 call light/callight 1654
SR up 469 safety measures 846 chair alarm 574
arm rest 371 family education 105 electronic 158
bed rail/bedrail 327 id bracelet 38 call button 81
need for restraints 200 bed sitter 35 safety device 73
low bed 72 patient education 31 non-slip 34
equipment safe 19 medication review 29 gait belt 29
safety procedure 8 educated family 16 no slip 13
hand rails 4 educated patient 11
Table 1c
Explicit mentions of fall risk, events or prevention: Most frequently identified n-grams and their total frequency.
Explicit fall risk, events or prevention
mechanical fall 868
fall risk 837
fall precaution 718
risk for fall/risk of fall 469
fell from 320
patient fell/patient fell 265
history of fall 113
fall prevention 57
recurrent fall 24
time of fall 23
The most commonly extracted n-grams were those related to intrinsic risk factors to patient falls, identified in 103,685 notes (10 percent) from 23,025 patients (63 percent). These included physiological and psychological patient factors, such as poor gait, mobility issues and impaired cognition. Additionally, 1,322 notes (0.1 percent) from 692 patients (2 percent) were found to contain n-grams related to extrinsic risk factors, such as environmental hazards and staffing and organizational features. Examples include mentions of understaffing, unstable furniture and slippery floors. In 3,972 notes (0.4 percent) from 1,789 patients (5 percent), fall risk or fall events were explicitly referenced (e.g. “Fell on slippery floor”, “Fell from bed”).
Intervention characteristics
In terms of interventions, 7,672 records (0.7 percent) from 2,571 patients (7 percent) were identified as containing n-grams to any of the intervention characteristics. The most commonly extracted n-grams were those associated with technology-related interventions, such as bed alarms and call lights. Moreover, care process and culture interventions, including monitoring mental status and maintaining safety, were commonly identified. Additionally, environment-related interventions, including removal of environmental clutter and lowering beds and chairs were frequently referenced.
This exploratory study of RN-generated EHR progress notes revealed clinically meaningful information about risk factors and intervention characteristics that could be significantly associated hospitalized patient’s fall risk. Specifically, in the corpus of RN progress notes for critical care patients, notes containing n-grams matching terms from the theory- and expert-derived lexicon were identified for around two thirds of the patients. Notably, this includes information that is not traditionally captured in structured fields of patient’s records, such as staffing and environmental factors.
Existing fall-risk prediction models lack specificity and fail to out-perform clinical judgement in terms of predictive value [13]. RNs’ EHR progress notes may contain patterns of documentation and information that are not apparent in structured data. Additionally, RNs’ EHR progress notes include important context and clinical rationale that could help improve our understanding of fall risk and effective prevention. Examination of these textual data could generate hypotheses for further research on previously understudied fall risk factors. This includes hypothesis generation related to the impact of organizational design, such as hospital environment and staffing, on fall risk and prevention. Studying nurse-generated progress notes presents a unique opportunity to leverage nurses’ voices in health care improvement. Nurses’ voices have been historically underrepresented in health services and policy research [36, 37, 38]. The identification of statistically and clinically meaningful risk factors from nurse-generated data, as well as innovative methods, can inform the development of effective clinical nursing practice.
Text mining has been used previously to examine patient safety, including identifying adverse events, automatically classify severity of incidents, and identify falls in ambulatory settings [20, 21, 22, 39]. This study adds to this body of evidence by highlighting the potential value of acute care nurses progress notes, a previously understudied data source. The lexicon generated in this study is both expert- and data-driven and can be adopted and/or adapted in other text mining analyses for external validation.
This exploratory text mining study provides an important first step in determining the potential value of RNs’ electronic narrative notes for fall prediction and prevention in hospital settings. However, several limitations should be noted. First, the data were limited to critical care patients in a single hospital system. Documentation practices may vary between different sites and settings. The supervised text mining approach constrained our results based on the lexicon created for this exploratory study. Therefore, our findings may be a conservative estimate of potentially significant and meaningful content in these RN-generated EHR progress notes. However, the lexicon development methods contributed to further generalizability and clinical meaningfulness across settings. Applying methods that included a review of the literature and consulting with subject matter experts from varied clinical and geographical backgrounds meant that terms in the lexicon should be representative of documentation in a broader range of settings and geographic regions. Second, the dataset used in this study was unlabeled. In other words, we were unable to distinguish between those who fell during their hospitalization and those who did not fall. We could only conclude that RN-generated EHR progress notes might contain risk factors that have been theoretically and empirically linked to fall risk.
The findings of this study highlight a rich source of RN EHR data that has been underutilized in clinical and organizational studies of hospital adverse events. Application and development of more robust text mining methods could uncover meaningful predictors or features related to patient falls and other patient safety outcomes. Future research should focus on more robust text mining analytics, including predictive analytics and unsupervised methods, using data that contain labels that reliably describe important dependent variables (e.g., faller or non-faller) These analytics can be used to uncover previously unknown fall risk factors, account for clinical and contextual features (i.e., prevalence, time before/after fall), and evaluate the predictive value of assessment data found in RN EHR progress notes.
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